Making sense of text: vocabulary knowledge resources

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

Students read the poem 'Don't be Wet' and complete two tables to show their understanding of puns. SJ-3-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem to explore the language it uses. SJ-4-3-1995. Text provided.

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

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

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.

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 read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

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.

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