Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students interpret information presented in a tree diagram to calculate the probability of various events.

Students interpret a line graph of a familiar situation.

Students throw three coins, and answer questions on frequency, probability, and compare theoretical with observed outcomes.

Students state what things will affect how far a cube will travel when flicked in the middle with a ball-point pen, and conduct an experiment to see what happens in practice.

Students read about creating a bird ball and respond to six short written questions which assess their comprehension of instructions. SJ-2-2-1994. Text provided.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

This resource centers around a poem about a cricket game. Cartoon illustrations surround the text and students use both to answer questions. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.

This resource requires students to answer four selected response questions on a table of contents from the book 'Antarctica'.

This resource requires students to answer five selected response questions about an index page from a book on travel.

Students answer questions based on multiplication or division by 25, and explain how they arrived at their answer.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

Students read a newspaper article and answer questions about comprehension and vocabulary.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

A newspaper story about a runaway weather balloon with a map that tracks its progress is the context for this assessment. Students read it to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

Students are required to identify the verbs in a short story about a boy jumping off a diving board.

Students read a non-fiction contents page to identify where to go for different information.

Students read a boy's description of himself, identify the places in which capital letters have been omitted for proper nouns, and insert these.

Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.) Reading age 9.5-10.5. SJ-4-3-2004. Text provided.

Task: Students classify each of six drawn whales as either toothed or baleen whales. They then divide each group further by using a key. Assessment focus: Interpreting representations.

Task: use a key to identify a fish, then complete a key to identify shellfish. Assessment focus: Interpreting representations - classification keys.

Students read a personal recount about family relationships in a Pacific context. Assessment focus: the author's construction of two characters and an evaluation of them.