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Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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

A newspaper article on the Wearable Art show is the context for this resource, with five short written response comprehension questions.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

This resource assesses points of view on the issue of keeping score in sport, with the task being to match statements to the views expressed by four students.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

Students use an index from a book on windsurfing to explain their understandings of an index and to find specific information.

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

Students match ten topics or subjects to the correct Dewey Decimal call number.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students describe what a thesaurus is, and label the features of a thesaurus.

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage with 25 blanks on octopuses. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on insects. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage about a type of beetle to create well-formed sentences.

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

The parts of a book provide the context for this resource with 12 questions on the various components of a book.

Students read an extract from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a narrative then complete three tasks that focus on one of the characters. Assessment focus: an evaluation of a character and the author's construction of that character. SJ-4-3-2004. Text provided.

Students read a short story about swimming in summer and answer questions about comprehension and inference. SJ-2-1-1992. Text provided.

Students read a report on a fisheries officer's work and make mainly short written responses. The assessment focus is on comprehension and vocabulary. SJ-3-3-1990. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a transactional text about blushing. SJ-4-1-2006. Text provided.