Using language, symbols, and texts resources

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 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.

Students read a narrative about a family's encounter with a stray cat. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to evaluate the characters. SJ-1-3-2008. Text provided.

Students read a narrative about how a girl deals with her anxiety over Sports Day. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-2-3-2009. Text provided.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.

The use of metaphors and similes is explored in this poem about umbrellas in a storm. Text provided.

Students create simple then compound sentences to go with a photo, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students write an advertisement to sell a kayak on a website.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a text containing instructions then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1984. Text provided.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

Students write a report on a table of data and make recommendations from their report.

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.

Assessment focus: finding important information and the main idea of an informational text. The text used is about an introduced species of fish which has become a pest. SJ-2-4-2005. Text provided.

The assessment focus is on the ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

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

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.