Thinking resources

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

Students read an article about the development of safety glass to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

Students read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details and identify the main idea of a narrative about a Cook Island tradition.

Students read a Junior Journal article about tree cutting. From their comprehension of the story they complete a retrieval chart and explain the figurative language used.

A newspaper article on the Wearable Art show is the context for this resource, with five short written response comprehension questions.

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

This resource assesses points of view on the issue of keeping score in sport, with the task being to match statements to the views expressed by four students.

The context of this task is a story about a power cut. Students identify the changing feelings of the children in the story and record these as a graph over time.

Students identify what type of people the characters in the story are and choose evidence from the text to justify their decisions; they also identify the main idea of the text. Suggestions for evaluating character and the author's style of characterisation are under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

Students read fifteen statements and identify the six statements of opinion.

Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

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

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students read a speech extract and decide whether selected pronouns either include or exclude the audience.

Students answer questions about weight and number of packets of biscuits for a school fundraising project.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

In this practical task, students decide which of four shapes have the same area, then use 100s blocks to check their answer.

This task assesses whether students know the most suitable reference resource to go to for particular information.

This assessment takes the context of the New Zealand flag and has questions that focus on presenting, layout, symbols, and visual cues.