Students identify common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists, and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.
For this NEMP task students perform a range of tasks using fractions. These include ordering, subtracting, finding an equivalent and recording as a decimal and percentage.
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.
This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.
This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text. Students are asked to read a text then complete three short tasks. Junior Journal 30. Text not provided.
Students give a 'show and tell' speech to a group of 4-5 students. The audience will ask questions at the conclusion of the speech. Scoring guides are provided for teachers.