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Students create three different sequential patterns using 12 squares or triangles.

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

Students are provided with a series of six labelled diagrams showing a bean seed germinating and developing into a small plant with leaves. Students write sentences describing what is occuring at each stage.

Students demonstrate their understanding of place value by identifying numbers shown in a shape-based number system.

On a diagram of a flowering plant, students write in the name of each of the indicated plant parts. They are then asked to name the part that makes seeds, and makes food.

Task: Describe what sort of day it is easiest to see shadows, and answer 2 multiple choice questions about length of shadows and time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Students unpack a picture, making inferences from its visual cues. SJ-1-2-1998. Text provided.

Students read a cartoon to answer retrieval and inferential questions about the story and the visual techniques used. SJ-1-1-1994.

Students study a poster about being safe in an earthquake and then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students first do the science activity Throwing Balloons 2 (PW2548) where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this writing task where they describe the balloon and what happened when it was thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students interpret and answer questions from a calendar showing one month of the year.

This task requires a hyacinth bulb to be set up in a glass container. As it develops and grows students make observations.

Students are required to write the number of some parts in the life cycle of a butterfly into a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.

For this practical students observe some activities which illustrate melting and dissolving. They write sentences about what they observe and then write what they think melting and dissolving mean.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.

This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

This task requires students to answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph of the lengths of seventeen frogs.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to find out about.

Students order three-digit numbers and identify even numbers.

Students use a calendar to answer questions about the days flowers are planted.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

Students select the most appropriate method that could be used to separate five different mixtures.