Using language, symbols, and texts resources

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

Students are required to describe the compass direction and distance that an ant travels toward different items of food positioned on a grid.

This resource looks at a set of cooking instructions for making "Crispy Rounds".

An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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.

The assessment focus is on the ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.

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.

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

This task assesses the understanding needed to punctuate direct speech by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech.

The context for this task is a grid-referenced map of historical sites. Students locate items at three grid references then write the grid references for all the castles on the map.

This resource assesses a student's ability to skim quickly and find the answers to eight questions about islands in the Pacific. It is a timed exercise.

Students use a plan of the school and a scale to answer questions about length and distance of buildings and courts in the school.

An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

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 are required to identify and interpret the metaphors in two short poems.

Students use an index from a book on windsurfing to explain their understandings of an index and to find specific information.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

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