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Students read about cooking food in hot pools to answer inference questions. SJ-1-5-1992. Text provided.

Students read a poem 'Full Moon Tiger' to answer questions about metaphor, contrast, rhyme and alliteration. SJ-2-3-1987. Text provided.

Students read an article about a boy who loves sculpting insects to answer retrieval and inferential questions. (The text used for this resource is in the teacher information pages.) SJ-4-1-1997. Text provided.

Students read part of a play called 'No Circulars' and then answer retrieval and and inferential questions. The play is reproduced in the Teacher information pages. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.

Students explore the language of personification and metaphor in the poem called 'Wash day for the clouds'. The questions require the students to think about the metaphors and personification. Text provided.

Students read a short text about ladybirds to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read a poem and its illustrations to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read an extract from a play then answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students read a play and answer questions about the characters' actions, the setting, and text layout. SJ-1-2-1985. Text not provided.

Students read a poem then use information from it to make inferences. Text not provided.

Students read a collage of students' statements about the battle at Gallipoli and respond to questions on fonts, symbols, visual background, and issues. SJ-4-2-1997.

Students read about creating a bird ball and respond to six short written questions which assess their comprehension of instructions. SJ-2-2-1994. Text provided.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

This resource centers around a poem about a cricket game. Cartoon illustrations surround the text and students use both to answer questions. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.

This resource requires students to answer four selected response questions on a table of contents from the book 'Antarctica'.

This resource requires students to answer five selected response questions about an index page from a book on travel.

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

Students read a newspaper article and answer questions about comprehension and vocabulary.

This oral assessment is designed to be given to a small group. The audience asks questions at the end of the speech. A selection of scoring guides is provided.

Students read a play to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

This resource assesses students' ability to analyse text to identify and find evidence of the author's message and audience.

Students read about a flu immunisation program and answer five questions to show their understanding of the text.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.