About Literacy - Reading
Literacy is a foundational skill that enables access to further learning, develops important life skills, and allows people to fully engage in work and in their communities.
Learners credited with Literacy - Reading standards can:
- make sense of written texts
- read written texts with critical awareness
- read written texts for different purposes.
Literacy and Numeracy co-requisite
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Standard and assessment specifications
Literacy - Reading assessment resources and guidance
Download previous years' Literacy - Reading Common Assessment Activities, assessment reports, specifications and exemplars.
Use these support documents with the teaching and learning resources, and guidance on embedding numeracy across the curriculum on NCEA.education.
Tools and more resources on NCEA.education
Teaching Literacy
Information about embedding Literacy across the curriculum and effective practices
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Determining readiness
Guidance on determining if ākonga are ready to sit a Literacy assessment
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