Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students read an article about castles to complete a retrieval chart using information from the text. SJ-1-2-1995. Text provided.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students read a report on a fisheries officer's work and make mainly short written responses. The assessment focus is on comprehension and vocabulary. SJ-3-3-1990. Text provided.

Students create character vignettes with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Students use the information in an article to interpret the body language of cats in nine different pictures. This task assesses student ability to bring together written and visual texts to show their comprehension. The text is reproduced in the Teacher information pages. SJ-3-1-1990. Text not provided.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

Students identify whether algebraic equations are always, sometimes, or never true, and explain their reasoning.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to find out about.

Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

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

Students construct a bar graph from the information about what sports Room 8 children would like to play next term.

Students read an extract about gathering water in Sāmoa to find information to fill in a chart. SJ-3-3-1999. Text provided.

Students interpret a back-to-back bar graph about apples picked by comparing and identifying patterns.

Students construct and give a title for a bar graph of favourite food from data in a tally chart.

Students read an article on parachuting and complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions.

Students construct a bar graph by categorising a range food items.

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

Students identify true and false statements, and provide a description of the most important features of a time series graph.

Students are required to compare sales represented on line graphs of the total sales and the pattern of sales over time.

Students interpret a bar graph of account balances and respond to questions about the data.

Students describe the shape of two distinctive dot plots showing different data.

Students need to complete a pictograph of the target monthly house sales. This includes constructing the key, drawing in an axis, adding a title, and presenting the data.

For this practical task students construct a composite strip graph of the nutrient groups found in three different food products.