Using language, symbols, and texts resources

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 convert fractions to decimals and explain how to do it.

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 identify whether to use 'there' or 'their' in a piece of student writing.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.