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 read an article about Tuatara to be able to fill in a chart with specific information. SJ-1-3-1998. Text provided.

Students read a poem 'Full Moon Tiger' to answer questions about metaphor, contrast, rhyme and alliteration. SJ-2-3-1987. Text provided.

Students read an article about a boy who loves sculpting insects to answer retrieval and inferential questions. (The text used for this resource is in the teacher information pages.) SJ-4-1-1997. Text provided.

Students read part of a play called 'No Circulars' and then answer retrieval and and inferential questions. The play is reproduced in the Teacher information pages. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.

Students read a poem and its illustrations to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read an extract from a play then answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

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

Students read an article on starfish and find factual information to complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-2-1999. Text not provided.

Students will identify and use nouns, adjectives, and verbs to write a poem that follows the same structure as given in two examples.

Students interpret information presented in a tree diagram to calculate the probability of various events.

Students read and then show a conversation using characters and speech bubbles.

Students interpret a back stem-and-leaf graph to answer questions about a measurement investigation.

Students interpret 2 line graphs to write five statements comparing the relationship between times, distances and speeds for Jack and Ellie in a 10 kilometre running race.

Students interpret a line graph of a familiar situation.

Students read information and make statements about the information from two bar graphs.

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

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on a question, categories, conduct the survey, tally and graph the results on a bar graph.

This resource has the parts of an article (on flight) numbered and assesses the student knowledge about where to locate different sorts of information in the article.

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

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Task: calculate answer to questions about speed, distance, and time. Assessment focus: using a formula.

Students throw two dice, add the numbers together, construct a tally chart of results, and compare theoretical with observed outcome.

Students predict whether two dice games are fair and give their reasons. They then play each game (investigate) fifty times and explain their results.

Students throw three coins, and answer questions on frequency, probability, and compare theoretical with observed outcomes.