Using language, symbols, and texts resources

For this practical task students construct a composite strip graph of the nutrient groups found in three different food products.

Students write both open and closed questions about the importance of smartphones to students their age.

Task: Look at the arrangement of fibres for four different paper towels, arrange an appropriate sequence of instructions, carry out the instructions and then communicate the data in an appropriate graph that will help answer the question. Different elements of the nature of science are embedded throughout the tasks. Assessment focus: planning and carrying out a fair test, using evidence to answer a question.

For this NEMP task students are required to fill out a form to join a Fun Club.

Task: Describe and compare some physical properties of plastic objects and identify the properties scientists might use for classifying materials. Assessment focus: classifying using physical properties.

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

For this NEMP task students fill out an application form for an after school job.

Students use cubes to construct part of a spatial pattern and answer questions on how to continue it.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing that is brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Students show temperature movements on a number line including negative numbers, and write the movement as an equation.

Students use doubling and halving to solve a number of multiplication problems.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

Students add the numbers shown on three dice.

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

Students identify multiples of 5 and of 3, and explain their reasoning.

Students demonstrate their understanding of a graph showing the relationship between the cost of different bottles of drink and the amount each bottle contains. They then explain which bottle of drink is the best value for money paid.

Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation.

Students describe the shape of two distinctive dot plots showing different data.

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

Students use a flowchart to find solutions and generate rules from them.

Students interpret information from a flowchart to calculate the total costs of different sized groups staying in a motel for varying lengths. They also complete a linear algebraic equation to show the costs of one group's stay.

Students first do the science activity Throwing balloons 3 or Throwing balloons 4 where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this resource's writing task where they describe the balloon and what happens when it is thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.