Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

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.

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.

A letter without capitals is the context of this punctuation assessment. Students insert capitals for a number of different purposes.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

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 solve addition story problems involving numbers of different magnitude to explore their place value understanding.

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 assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify the adjectives in a short story about making breakfast.

Students are assessed on their ability to use the modelled features of a thesaurus to create their own thesaurus page.