Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students deliver an impromptu speech from a range of topics. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about conservation projects for endangered species.

Students use an index page to identify the pages they should go to, in order to find specific information.

This transactional writing resource requires students to express their views about organ donation.

Students answer questions involving finding fractions in story problems about marbles and write their answer in its simplest form.

Students read a poem, written from the point of view of an immigrant, then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students use survey data about sports results to estimate the probability of the next person's answer.

Students show how to solve some subtraction problems.

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

This task requires students to describe and compare line graphs of three different sets of data.

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the front-end method, and then do more problems using front-end.

This task assesses students' ability to give a book review to a small group.

This resource is for the assessment of team debating at intermediate school. A selection of topics are provided. Oral Language Assessment Guides - Speaking E and G are suitable for this task.

Students retell a myth or legend to another student. Suggestions for the speech content and scoring guides are included.

Students present an instructive speech to the class or small group. Some topics are provided as examples and scoring guides for teachers are attached.

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Students find fractions of numbers of different farm animals and put them in their simplest form.

Students write an argument either for or against daily physical education in schools. Support materials and links to exemplars for writing an argument are given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students show how to divide given amounts into the number of groups of a given size.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students show how to calculate maths problems involving fractions as a part and as a whole.