Thinking resources

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students use evidence in a text to make inferences about a character's feelings. They analyse these within scaffolding activities, synthesising their thinking to suggest the author's message.

Students throw two dice, add the numbers together, construct a tally chart of results, and compare theoretical with observed outcome.

Students predict whether two dice games are fair and give their reasons. They then play each game (investigate) fifty times and explain their results.

Students throw three coins, and answer questions on frequency, probability, and compare theoretical with observed outcomes.

Students state what things will affect how far a cube will travel when flicked in the middle with a ball-point pen, and conduct an experiment to see what happens in practice.

Students conduct a statistical investigation into the sentence length of different types of books by making and comparing dot plots.

Students predict the outcome of throwing five dice and confirm their predictions by conducting an experiment and calculating probabilities. After discussing how to get better estimates, they pool their results with others to get a more accurate estimate of how good their predictions were.

Students conduct a statistical investigation about their prediction of the most common words used in English. They make graphs, describe their shape, and compare their own graph with ones that other students produce.

Students read about creating a bird ball and respond to six short written questions which assess their comprehension of instructions. SJ-2-2-1994. Text provided.

This resource centers around a poem about a cricket game. Cartoon illustrations surround the text and students use both to answer questions. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

Students drag numerals to create decimal numbers to create the largest and smallest decimal numbers, and closest decimal numbers to given whole numbers.

Students explain who is most likely to win a game based on spinners, and how the game could be made fair.

Students read a newspaper article and answer questions about comprehension and vocabulary.

Students read a play to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read a poem to answer questions that focus on the language used. Text provided.

An anecdotal story about fever and the discovery of quinine provides the context for this assessment with its focus on information retrieval and making inferences. The text is provided with this resource.

This resource assesses students' ability to analyse text to identify and find evidence of the author's message and audience.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students plan how to do a statistical investigation about a question that has been posed, and think about how they will collect their data.