Using language, symbols, and texts resources

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

This task assesses the initial understanding needed to punctuate direct speech, by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech and insert the necessary punctuation.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

Students break given numbers into equal sized groups. Students must show their working.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

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

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

Students explore the issue of school uniforms, developing arguments around it from different points of view.

Students find subsequent shapes in a repeated pattern and show how to work out another shape based further on in the pattern.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Students calculate the number of containers needed for given amounts of fruit for a recipe.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.

This resource assesses student knowledge of six language terms used in debating. Students match the language terms with their definitions.

Students present and deliver a short talk on a news item that interests them. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Students read some examples of metaphors that have been extended then write their own. They also reflect on why writers use metaphors.

Students use a number line to identify the best answer for addition and multiplication of numbers with fractions.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.