CSI and the New Zealand Curriculum
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Student engagement is widely accepted as critical to learning. The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) describes the importance of school curricula having meaning for students, and connecting students with their wider lives.    



CSI is well positioned to engage students:

    • In CSI, students build on their prior knowledge. They make predictions and connections based on cues in the text and their experiences.
    • CSI uses a variety of interesting, relevant and authentic texts to help engage students' minds and imaginations. 
    • The cooperative activities in CSI give students the opportunity to work in partnerships to read, discuss and write text.
    • The CSI reflection journal enables students to regularly assess their own reading – an authentic assessment strategy that embraces personal growth.
    • CSI learning combines traditional modes and new multi-media to support learning and significantly increase engagement.  

The texts in CSI are drawn from local, national and international contexts.  The CSI members area offers free texts to CSI customers that build on students existing knowledge and experience.  


Using a unique interface for presenting digital texts on interactive or standard whiteboards, CSI supports the development of the key competencies, such as thinking, and using language, symbols and text. Students take an active role in developing their reading comprehension strategies.  They ask questions of themselves and the learning is dynamic.  Teachers show themselves as learners and students work both co-operatively and independently to develop metacognition – the ability to monitor and repair their own understanding of text.


CSI supports and aligns with the comprehension strategies identified in Effective Literacy Practice, Years 1–4 and Years 5–8.

    • making connections
    • asking questions
    • creating mental images or visualising
    • inferring
    • identifying the main idea
    • analysing and synthesising.


CSI’s strategy of monitoring comprehension and repairing understanding aligns with the Effective Literacy Practice literacy strategies of cross-checking, confirming, and self correcting.

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