Making sense of text: processing system resources

Students read two letters about personal viewpoints on graffiti and answer questions about the content and style of the letters.

Students are assessed on their ability to find and synthesise details to explain the main idea of a text. The text is focused on adjusting to life as a separated family. SJ-3-2-2006. Text provided.

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

An article about a clown is read by students who then complete a retrieval chart about his job.

Students read an article on Mother Teresa and then answer short comprehension questions.

Students read a poem and explore how the poem expresses the storyteller's mood. SJ-2-1-1990. Text provided.

Students use comprehension skills to answer a range of questions based on a newspaper story. Knowledge of adjectives and alliteration is also required.

After reading a narrative that is about sibling rivalry, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysis and evaluation of a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age <8. SJ-1-5-2004. Text provided.

Students read about cooking food in hot pools to answer inference questions. SJ-1-5-1992. Text provided.

Students explore the language of personification and metaphor in the poem called 'Wash day for the clouds'. The questions require the students to think about the metaphors and personification. Text provided.

Students read a short text about ladybirds to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read a poem and its illustrations to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read a play and answer questions about the characters' actions, the setting, and text layout. SJ-1-2-1985. Text not provided.

Students read a poem then use information from it to make inferences. Text not provided.

A story about getting rid of family junk is the context for this task. Students find evidence to make inferences about the characters. SJ-1-4-1998. Text not provided.

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

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

Students read a play to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

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 identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.

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

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea in a text about bridge construction.

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".

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.