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For this NEMP task students fill in a postcard about a holiday. Students' writing is assessed on postcard conventions, content, and legibility.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

Students identify the topic sentence, supporting sentences and summary sentence in a given paragraph. They then write their own paragraph, working to include these elements.

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of explanation.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of persuasion.

This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

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

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.

Students write an advertisement to sell a kayak on a website.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

Students create a 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 use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.