Vocabulary resources

From given examples, students define four root words then complete a chart of root words and their meanings.

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'.

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

Select which materials are transparent, opaque, or translucent. Assessment focus: vocabulary of a material property.

Students classify 12 common substances as either a compound, mixture, or element.

Task: Match definitions to terms about light rays. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.

Students are assessed on their ability to use the modelled features of a thesaurus to create their own thesaurus page.

Students are asked to explain the meaning of the terms, recycle, reduce, and reuse.

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

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

Students draw a line from each genetic term to its correct definition.

Students select the correct written definition of the words element, compound, and mixture.

Students read an advertisement and retrieve information and make inferences from it.

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 a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on Inuit carving.

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.

Students complete a cloze passage and use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

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

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

A montage of ideas about body piercing is the stimulus for questions that require students to unpack synonyms, colloquial language, and referring words.

Students complete a cloze passage with 25 blanks on octopuses. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.