Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students interpret back-to-back stem-and-leaf graphs. Knowledge of the median is required.

Students write an invitation to a party.

Students create a character vignette with a focus on writing pieces that are 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'.

This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.

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

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.

For this NEMP task students use a grid map of an island to locate positions and describe ways to move from one position to another.

Students explain why a range of students' answers to a maths problem are incorrect.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

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 expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

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

Students demonstrate their understanding of standard form numbers by ordering given numbers from smallest to largest and by identifying the larger of two numbers.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half, explain their reasoning, and identify how far from half some fractions are.

Students identify whether to use 'there' or 'their' in a piece of student writing.

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..

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

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

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 write short paragraphs using geometrical terms to describe two pictures. The terms equilateral, scalene, and isosceles are to be used to describe a castle. The words circumference, diameter, and radius are to be used to describe a bicycle.