The New Zealand Curriculum · Phase 1

Year 0 and new entrants English Worksheets

For the first six months at school (Year 0 and new entrants), the topics English covers in the New Zealand Curriculum, with the skills we have worksheets for, each described in our own words.

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Trace the Letter A Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter B Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter C Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter D Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter E Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter F Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter G Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter H Years 1–2 · English ★

What students learn in Year 0 and new entrants English

New Zealand Year 0 and new entrants English has 3 topics: Talking and listening in class; Phonics, reading and understanding; and Handwriting, spelling and writing. Our worksheets cover 25 skills in 2 of them. The most are in Phonics, reading and understanding, with 19 skills, such as reading and spelling sight words, reading and spelling CVC words and word ladders: changing letters to make new words. There are also skills in Handwriting, spelling and writing (14 skills). We have no worksheets yet for Talking and listening in class. Each skill below says in plain words what your child works on, with links to its worksheets.

Phonics, reading and understanding

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• Reading and spelling sight words. Read the most common words at a glance, including ones that do not sound out the way they are spelled, such as said and the, and spell them correctly. Worksheets: Pre-Primer Sight Words Worksheets (set) · Primer Sight Words Worksheets (set).
• Reading and spelling CVC words. Sound out and spell short words made of a consonant, a short vowel and a consonant, such as cat, hen, pig, dog and sun, and see how changing one letter makes a new word. Worksheets: Short Vowel CVC Words Worksheets (set) · CVC Word Family Worksheets (set) · Missing Vowel CVC Worksheets (set) · Short Vowel Sort Worksheets (set) · Read the Silly Words (Year 1).
• Word ladders: changing letters to make new words. Make a new word by changing, adding or taking away one letter, and read and spell each word on the way, from short vowel words to longer words with blends, digraphs and vowel teams. Worksheets: CVC Word Ladder Worksheets (set).
• Knowing the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. Know every uppercase and lowercase letter on sight, tell it apart from letters that look like it, and say the sound it usually stands for, as in apple for a and ball for b. Worksheets: Alphabet Worksheets A–Z (set).
• Hearing the first sound in a word. Say a word and hear the sound it starts with, then match that sound to its letter: ball and bed start with b, sun and sock with s. Worksheets: Beginning Sounds Worksheets A–Z (set) · Beginning Sounds Cut and Paste Worksheets (set) · Match the Beginning Sounds Worksheets (set) · Write the First Letter: Consonants · Write the First Letter: Short Vowels.
• Long vowels with silent e (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e). Hear long and short vowels, and read and spell words where a final e makes the vowel say its name: cap and cape, kit and kite, hop and hope, cub and cube. Worksheets: Silent e (set).
• Ending sounds. Hear and name the last sound in a spoken word, such as the t in cat, and find pictures that end with the same sound. Worksheets: Ending Sounds: t, n and r · Ending Sounds: l, x and t · Ending Sounds: k, n and l.
• One spelling, more than one sound: ow, ea, oo, c, g, y and ough. Know that some spellings stand for more than one sound (ow in snow and cow, ea in bead and bread, c in cat and city), try each sound, and choose the one that makes a real word. Worksheets: One Spelling, Two Sounds (set).
• Silent letters: kn, wr, gn and mb. Read words with silent letters, such as knife, write, gnat and lamb, and find the letter that makes no sound. Worksheets: Silent Letters (set).
• Concepts of print: words, spaces and sentences. Know how print works: read words from left to right and top to bottom, see that spaces separate words, tell a letter from a word and a word from a sentence, and find the first word, the capital letter and the end mark of a sentence. Worksheets: Letter, Word or Sentence? · Words, Pictures, and Symbols (Years 1 and 2) · What Is a Sentence? (Year 1) · How We Read a Page (Year 1).
• Author's purpose and point of view. Tell why an author wrote a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain) and what the author thinks, who a text is written for, which form of writing fits a purpose and an audience, and name the narrator's point of view (first, second or third person, limited or all-knowing) and how it shapes what the reader learns. Worksheets: At Willow Pond: Year 1 Author’s Purpose · Taking a Book Home: Year 1 Author’s Purpose · Purpose for Reading (Year 1).
• Story words, parts, and narrators. Read a short story, poem, or play closely: work out new words, find feeling and sense words, repeated lines, and rhymes, tell literal from nonliteral phrases, name the parts (poem, chapter, scene), and tell who is telling the story and how each character, and the reader, sees it. Worksheets: A Story and a Poem About Kites: Year 1 Story or Poem.
• Prefixes and suffixes. Use prefixes such as un-, re-, dis- and pre- and suffixes such as -ful, -less, -ness and -ly to work out what a word means and to build new words. Worksheets: Word Parts: -s, -ed, -ing, re-, and un-.
• Reading fluency. Read an on-level story or poem aloud with accuracy, a steady pace, and expression, a little better on each of three readings, understand what was read, and reread to fix a word that does not make sense. Worksheets: I Can See: Year 1 Read-Aloud Passage · Bear’s Red Hat: Year 1 Read-Aloud Passage · We Go to the Farm: Year 1 Read-Aloud Passage · Snow Day: Year 1 Read-Aloud Passage.
• Reading comprehension, Year 1. Listen to a short story or a short text about real things read aloud, then find the problem and how it ends, the most important details, or the steps in order, and point to where the text says so. Worksheets: The Lost Red Ball: Year 1 Read-Aloud Story · Hen Makes Soup: Year 1 Read-Aloud Story · The Rainy Picnic: Year 1 Read-Aloud Story · The Tall Tower: Year 1 Read-Aloud Story · Bees and Honey: Year 1 Read-Aloud Facts · All About Snow: Year 1 Read-Aloud Facts and 2 more.
• Phonemic awareness: blending and segmenting sounds. Blend an onset and a rime (c + at) or single sounds (s-u-n) into a word, and break a spoken word into its sounds and count them. Worksheets: Blend the Sounds Into a Word (Year 1) · Vowels and Consonants (Year 1).
• Rhyming words. Hear when two words end with the same sound, such as cat and hat, find the picture that rhymes, and say more words that rhyme. Worksheets: Rhymes and Same First Sounds (Year 1).
• Verbs: tense, irregular verbs and agreement. Find action, helping and linking verbs, write verbs in the past, present and future, use irregular past forms such as sat and told, and make the verb agree with its subject, even when a phrase comes between them. Worksheets: Word Endings s and ed (Year 1).
• Sorting and connecting ideas with diagrams and charts. Use a diagram or chart to sort and connect ideas: compare things, map the parts of a story, put events in order, link causes to effects, and plan writing before starting it. Worksheets: Connecting a Story to Me (Year 1).

Sight Word: a Years 1–2 · English ★ Sight Word: away Years 1–2 · English ★ Sight Word: big Years 1–2 · English ★ Sight Word: blue Years 1–2 · English ★

Handwriting, spelling and writing

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• Forming uppercase and lowercase letters. Print every uppercase and lowercase letter with the right strokes, in the right order and direction, sitting on the line. Worksheets: Letter Tracing Worksheets A–Z (set).
• Reading and spelling sight words. Read the most common words at a glance, including ones that do not sound out the way they are spelled, such as said and the, and spell them correctly. Worksheets: Pre-Primer Sight Words Worksheets (set) · Primer Sight Words Worksheets (set).
• Reading and spelling CVC words. Sound out and spell short words made of a consonant, a short vowel and a consonant, such as cat, hen, pig, dog and sun, and see how changing one letter makes a new word. Worksheets: Short Vowel CVC Words Worksheets (set) · Missing Vowel CVC Worksheets (set).
• Spelling, Year 2. Spell short-vowel words, words with blends and digraphs such as sh, ch and th, silent-e words, common vowel teams, and words ending in -s, -ed and -ing. Worksheets: Year 2 Spelling (set).
• Writing, Year 1. Draw and write about a picture, trace and copy short sentences, and finish sentence frames, starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. Worksheets: Informative Writing Worksheets (set) · Informative Writing Prompts (set).
• Writing, Year 2. Write sentences with spaces between words, give an opinion with a reason, tell events in order with first, next, then and last, and write a short friendly letter. Worksheets: Opinion Writing Worksheets (set) · How-To Writing Worksheets (set) · Informative Writing Worksheets (set) · Opinion Writing Prompts (set) · Informative Writing Prompts (set).
• Ending sounds. Hear and name the last sound in a spoken word, such as the t in cat, and find pictures that end with the same sound. Worksheets: Ending Sounds: t, n and r · Ending Sounds: l, x and t · Ending Sounds: k, n and l.
• Phonemic awareness: blending and segmenting sounds. Blend an onset and a rime (c + at) or single sounds (s-u-n) into a word, and break a spoken word into its sounds and count them. Worksheets: How Many Sounds? 2 or 3.
• Figurative language: similes, metaphors and idioms. Tell what a simile, a metaphor, an idiom or personification means, tell figurative words from literal ones, and say why a writer chose them. Worksheets: Onomatopoeia: Sound Words.
• Hearing the first sound in a word. Say a word and hear the sound it starts with, then match that sound to its letter: ball and bed start with b, sun and sock with s. Worksheets: Write the First Letter: Consonants · Write the First Letter: Short Vowels.
• Author's purpose and point of view. Tell why an author wrote a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain) and what the author thinks, who a text is written for, which form of writing fits a purpose and an audience, and name the narrator's point of view (first, second or third person, limited or all-knowing) and how it shapes what the reader learns. Worksheets: At Willow Pond: Year 1 Author’s Purpose · Taking a Book Home: Year 1 Author’s Purpose · Purpose for Reading (Year 1).
• Syllables in spoken words. Clap and count the syllables in a spoken word, such as ap-ple and but-ter-fly, blend syllables into a word, and split a word into its syllables. Worksheets: Syllable Play: Take Away and Blend (Year 1).
• Concepts of print: words, spaces and sentences. Know how print works: read words from left to right and top to bottom, see that spaces separate words, tell a letter from a word and a word from a sentence, and find the first word, the capital letter and the end mark of a sentence. Worksheets: What Is a Sentence? (Year 1).
• Reading comprehension, Year 1. Listen to a short story or a short text about real things read aloud, then find the problem and how it ends, the most important details, or the steps in order, and point to where the text says so. Worksheets: Made Up or True? Stories and Facts.

Trace the Letter A Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter B Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter C Years 1–2 · English ★ Trace the Letter D Years 1–2 · English ★

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