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	Reading	Writing
After one year at school	The Way It Was A Good Idea The Great car clean-out Mum's New Job	On the weekend I wonder why we have night and day The Three Little Pigs My Chicken Magnets
After two years at school	The King's Birthday Inside the Maize Maze Dimitri's Lunch	The Tupperware Party Stories along the River Cats Green and Red Yummy Jelly How the Lungs Work What are Pyramids for?
After three years at school	Night is a Blanket Sun Bears are Special The Impossible Bridge Undersea Gardens Wild Orphans “A Quiet Evening”	Compost worms Make a smoothie! Cheeky Charlie
By the end of year 4	Camping down the Line Basket Boats “Nana and the Flower Arranger” “Haere Mai!” “ Rangoli” “Celebrating Matariki”	The Ram ‘Why Do Onions Make You Cry?’ It’s mexicano nachos! Christopher Columbus!
By the end of year 5	Plight of the Sea Turtle Plastic Fantastic? World’s Water Running Out “Finding China” “Survivor” “Drought”	‘My Big Challenge’ and ‘Jellyfish’ Why and how tornados occur Water Quality I Am David – Epilogue
By the end of year 6	Plight of the Sea Turtle The Vege Car “A Flying Ostrich”	Bottle Submarine Shadows Recycling ‘A Conversation’
By the end of year 7	The Gestapo's Most Wanted Estuary Health Check "Deer, Oh Deer"	'Bottle Submarine' and 'The Grey Wolf!' My Room Makeover 'Events of the Past’
By the end of year 8	The Gestapo's Most Wanted "Deer, Oh Deer" “Flight of the Albatross” “One Small Step” “Richard Henry: Protector of the Kākāpō” "Pacific Paradise?”	'No Advertisements' and 'Selfish stupid smoke Selling' ‘Landfills’ Fair Trade Coffee

Reading

Writing

After one year at school

The Way It Was
A Good Idea

The Great car clean-out

Mum's New Job

On the weekend
I wonder why we have night and day

The Three Little Pigs

My Chicken

Magnets

After two years at school

The King's Birthday
Inside the Maize Maze

Dimitri's Lunch

The Tupperware Party
Stories along the River

Cats

Green and Red Yummy Jelly

How the Lungs Work

What are Pyramids for?

After three years at school

Night is a Blanket
Sun Bears are Special

The Impossible Bridge

Undersea Gardens

Wild Orphans

“A Quiet Evening”

Compost worms
Make a smoothie!

Cheeky Charlie

By the end of year 4

Camping down the Line
Basket Boats

“Nana and the Flower Arranger”

“Haere Mai!”

“ Rangoli”

“Celebrating Matariki”

The Ram

‘Why Do Onions Make You Cry?’

It’s mexicano nachos!

Christopher Columbus!

By the end of year 5

Plight of the Sea Turtle
Plastic Fantastic?
World’s Water Running Out

“Finding China”

“Survivor”

“Drought”

‘My Big Challenge’ and ‘Jellyfish’

Why and how tornados occur

Water Quality

I Am David – Epilogue

By the end of year 6

Plight of the Sea Turtle
The Vege Car

By the end of year 7

The Gestapo's Most Wanted
Estuary Health Check

"Deer, Oh Deer"

'Bottle Submarine' and 'The Grey Wolf!'

My Room Makeover

'Events of the Past’

By the end of year 8

The Gestapo's Most Wanted

"Deer, Oh Deer"

“Flight of the Albatross”

“One Small Step”

“Richard Henry: Protector of the Kākāpō”

"Pacific Paradise?”

'No Advertisements' and 'Selfish stupid smoke Selling'

‘Landfills’

Fair Trade Coffee

Acknowledgments

Extracts in the reading standards are from the Ready to Read and the School Journal series. Copyright for the texts, illustrations and photographs are as stated in the original publications. Examples of students’ writing have been reproduced by kind permission of the writers and are copyright © Crown.

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