Using language, symbols, and texts resources

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

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

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

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

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.

Students plan how to do a statistical investigation about a question that has been posed, and think about how they will collect their data.

Students answer questions about a bar graph which shows the number of different types of animals at 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.

This resource assesses students' ability to select appropriate key words, from a given list, for the purpose of finding information that can be used to answer a given question. Students' ability to generate key words is also assessed.

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.

Students identify multiples of 4 and of 6, and explain their reasoning.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

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.

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.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

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