Making sense of text: processing system resources

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.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

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.

Students read a poem to answer questions that focus on the language used. 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.

A student's text about the effects of their spending habits is read to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read an extract about selecting suitable trees to build a waka then 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.