Contents
Welcome to Literacy
Let’s get reading | Kia pānui tātou
Text 1: Tracking from The Reluctant Hero
Text 2: Ride like your aunty is watching
Text 3: The Underwater Classroom
Text 4: Elevate your Easter baking with
Whittaker’s
Text 5: Reviews of the novel The Bone Tiki
Text 6: Settlement Opinion
Text 7: Mussel building
Text 8: Cook Strait curse strikes again
Text 9: Chatham honey tours
Text 10: Kibble vs Raw Food
Text 11: Polished Diamonds
Text 12: Kura Māori empowering next
generation
Text 13: A career highlight
Text 14: Science on the ice
Text 15: Wildboy
Let’s be accurate | Kia tika tātou
Punctuation – the basics
Sentences – the basics
Tenses – the basics
Spelling – the basics
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Set 4
Set 5
Let’s get writing | Kia tuhi tātou
How to write a formal letter or email
Task 1: Formal letter
Task 2: Formal email
Task 3: Formal letter
How to write an article
Task 4: Article
Task 5: Article
Task 6: Article
What else might you have to write?
Let’s practise
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Question 7
Question 8
Question 9
Answers
Kathryn is an assistant HOLA English at Lincoln High School, Specialist Classroom Teacher and Professional Learning Team Facilitator. Teaching English since 2007, she is one of the authors of the Getting Familiar with the Unfamiliar titles in our senior English list. She is also a co-author of Literacy Essentials.
Jenny is an experienced English teacher who has taught at all levels. She is the author of several titles in our English portfolio, in particular the English Basics series. She is also a co-author of Literacy Essentials.
Diane is an experienced English teacher who has taught at all levels. She is the author of several titles in our English portfolio, in particular the How to … and Building on … series. On leaving teaching she has taught adult literacy classes. She is also a co-author of Literacy Essentials.