Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students are provided with information about the structure of a haiku poem. They identify the syllables in another haiku poem, and then write their own.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech to inform, persuade, or entertain. A list of topics suitable for Year 7/8 students is provided. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

Students identify phrases within sentences which provide additional information, and enclose these phrases using commas.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.

Students reflect on notes taken during a rugby game to write an effective report. They also consider some features that will add effect to their report. A link to student support material is given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Student read an extract from a speech that contains examples of a rhetorical question, exaggeration, understatement, allusion, and contrast. Using the examples from the speech to help them, students write a definition of each language feature..

Students are required to identify arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos and then use these to write a paragraph expressing their point of view about this issue.

Students explain why three sentences are ambiguous and rewrite them to make the meaning clearer.

Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)

Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.

Students demonstrate their understanding of order of operations by explaining how a correct answer is calculated.

This resource assesses students dictionary skills through a range of short answer questions. These are given in relation to a provided dictionary page, although another dictionary page could be used.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

The context of this task is a story about a power cut. Students identify the changing feelings of the children in the story and record these as a graph over time.

Students identify spelling errors in common homophones and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students read fifteen statements and identify the six statements of opinion.

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

Students match ten topics or subjects to the correct Dewey Decimal call number.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students describe what a thesaurus is, and label the features of a thesaurus.