Making sense of text: vocabulary knowledge resources

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

This resource has an assessment focus on comprehending the language features used in an advertisement.

Students complete a cloze passage with 26 blanks about a boy stuck between some steps. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage with 27 blanks on the release of a killer whale. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

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

Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.) SJ-4-3-2004. Text provided.

A newspaper article on working from home is the stimulus for this resource. The assessment focus is on looking at both sides of an issue, vocabulary and comprehension.

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.)

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

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

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

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

After reading a poem, students respond to questions which focus on understanding features of language used and their effects.

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.

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.