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Year 10 English
Prepare for Year 10 English (New Zealand · Year 10) with an AI assistant. 5 chapters: Reading and analysing texts, Literary traditions, Media and digital literacy, Persuasive speaking and writing, Creative writing. Tick what your exam covers, then study with guided help, quizzes and practice papers.
Chapters and topics
- Reading and analysing texts
- Audience and purpose
- Character, setting and action
- Context: time, culture and events
- Evidence and the author's purpose
- Language, style and structure
- Literary traditions
- Literary traditions and conventions
- Tropes and common ideas
- New Zealand storytelling
- Different responses to the same text
- Media and digital literacy
- Judging whether information is reliable
- Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation
- Using digital media responsibly
- Persuasive speaking and writing
- Thesis statements and structuring arguments
- Using evidence from several sources
- Counter-arguments
- Ethos, pathos, logos and rhetorical language
- Speeches, debates and delivery
- Critical listening and calls to action
- Creative writing
- Descriptive and sensory language
- Narrative voice
- Foreshadowing and tension
- Grammar and sentence style
- Giving and using feedback
Official syllabus
The New Zealand Curriculum. The refreshed New Zealand Curriculum, English, Year 10 (Text studies and Language studies), as the Ministry of Education's guide for Year 10 summarises it (October 2025). Grouped into chapters for study.