Verified authoring anchor
“Include words and phrases with multiple meanings that require effective word-solving strategies.”
Where this is taught
- Word Detective Lab (diagnostic) — context, sentence job, word parts, and replacement are explicitly taught and named.
- Word Detective Case Files — six multiple-meaning cases require a meaning, clue, and replacement check.
- The lab's exit evidence identifies which strategy each ākonga can use independently — the baseline the seminar's shared-text vocabulary work (Lesson 2) builds on.
Source and provenance
The statement above is copied verbatim from the active Te Mātaiaho 2025 English curriculum corpus. It is recorded as English, Phase 3, Text Studies, Practices, for Years 7–8.
Open the Ministry of Education English Phases 1–4 curriculum page.
Mātauranga Māori and language dignity
The English anchor on this page does not turn te reo Māori into material for English decoding practice. Kupu Māori, ingoa, and place names carry their own language system and cultural context. In this route, the seminar rule is explicit: where a challenge word is kupu Māori, the text's own glossary or source is the authority, consulted rather than debated. The pūrākau session is governed by the provenance rules inside Lesson 6: a named, sourced telling or an alternative text — never an unsourced retelling.
How to use this in planning
Run the Word Detective Lab before the seminar sessions and use its exit evidence to see which word-solving clue each ākonga can use independently. That tells you who to pre-teach vocabulary to privately before each shared-text session, and which clue to lean on when the class argues a word's meaning-in-passage in Lesson 2.
Alignment boundary
This page records a verified on-page authoring anchor and shows where the current teaching directly teaches it. It does not claim a completed audited database edge for the whole unit. The ten seminar lessons teach comprehension strategies whose statement-level alignment has not yet been verified statement by statement; additional curriculum statements should be added only when the verbatim checker passes against a finished lesson that genuinely teaches them.