Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

Students add the numbers shown on three dice.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

Students break given numbers into equal sized groups. Students must show their working.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.

This resource assesses student knowledge of six language terms used in debating. Students match the language terms with their definitions.

Students present and deliver a short talk on a news item that interests them. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Students read some examples of metaphors that have been extended then write their own. They also reflect on why writers use metaphors.

Students use a number line to identify the best answer for addition and multiplication of numbers with fractions.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

Students use a protractor to locate towns on a map from given compass bearings.

This task assesses students' ability to provide examples of different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) in the context of writing two four-word alliteration poems.

From given examples, students define four root words then complete a chart of root words and their meanings.

Students use a given example of a blurb about a book to create their own blurb for a book of their choice.