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'.
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.)
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.
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.