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Curriculum Alignment

Oral Storytelling Traditions

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Key alignment areas
English
Primary learning area
Phases 2-5
Useful progression range
Strong fit
“Students listen, speak, and present with purpose for different audiences and contexts.”

How this handout aligns

The retelling scaffold and oral-language prompts make audience, message, repetition, and delivery choices visible for students preparing spoken work.

📚 English🗣️ Oral language🔖 Audience and purpose

Useful for speeches, oral retellings, spoken-word work, or preparation for debate and kōrero tasks.

Strong fit
“Students interpret how texts carry values, perspectives, history, and identity.”

How this handout aligns

The comparison between oral and written forms supports students to see how culture, memory, and worldview are carried through storytelling conventions.

📚 English🧭 Identity and culture🔖 Text interpretation

Strong when kaiako want oral language to be treated as a serious text tradition rather than a warm-up activity.

Supporting fit
“Students explore how people, communities, and histories are remembered, communicated, and sustained.”

How this handout aligns

This handout helps connect oral storytelling to whakapapa, local history, and community knowledge, making it useful across English and Social Sciences contexts.

🌍 Social Sciences support🧭 Whakapapa and memory🔖 Local context

Especially useful when local histories, oral accounts, or pūrākau are part of the wider learning sequence.