Using language, symbols, and texts resources

A student speaks to another student or a small group about a news article. Two scoring guides are provided.

Using information given in pictures students write four word problems using the operation set out in each instruction.

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

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

Students perform calculations on numbers in standard form and convert numbers from standard form to ordinary form and vice versa.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students answer questions about major natural events that happened on the Earth in one week by interpreting a diagram showing these.

The parts of a book provide the context for this resource with 12 questions on the various components of a book.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

Students predict the probability about the product of two dice and test their prediction by conducting an experiment that estimates the probability.

A council survey is to be sent out, and students are asked to give examples of representative samples.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to use evidence in a text to work out what a poem could be about as it is disclosed in stages.

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

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

A tale about a character who resolves a problem creatively provides the context for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to fill in the missing words.

Students find the unknown for a range of equations that require number property knowledge and understanding of relational thinking.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Using a picture as stimulus, students use nouns and verbs to create well-formed sentences.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.

For this NEMP task students work out all possible combinations in a table tennis contest.

Students read a short extract on diving and answer five comprehension questions.