Using language, symbols, and texts resources

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify the adjectives in a short story about making breakfast.

Students are assessed on their ability to use the modelled features of a thesaurus to create their own thesaurus page.

Students read the poem 'Don't be Wet' and complete two tables to show their understanding of puns. SJ-3-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem, retrieve information, and then use this information to make inferences. The text used is shown into the resource. It can also be located in School Journal, Part 2, No. 1, 1999. SJ-2-1-1999. Text provided.

Students identify the topic sentence, supporting sentences and summary sentence in a given paragraph. They then write their own paragraph, working to include these elements.

Students view an illustration and read a poem entitled 'The Dinosaur Climber's Kit' and then answer retrieval and inferential questions. An awareness of rhyme is explored. SJ-2-3-1994. Text provided.

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of explanation.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of persuasion.

This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

Students read an article on the marathon. They then answer a range of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

Students identify common spelling errors and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.

Students read a narrative and make inferences about the characters' feelings based on evidence in the text. Text is provided with this resource. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Students are required to identify whether a series of statements about the School Journal story 'Personal Mail' are true or false, and to support their opinion with evidence from the text. This task assesses students' retrieval and inferential comprehension skills. SJ-3-1-1991. Text provided.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Students design a qualitative scale for measuring how hard their school work is, then use it to record their opinions throughout the day.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

Students interpret back-to-back stem-and-leaf graphs. Knowledge of the median is required.

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.