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Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a narrative text. The text describes a person's experience of war and their learnings from it. SJ-2-1-2006. Text provided.

This is a collection of science tasks across the science capabilities and contextual strands.

Students calculate the number of rocks in a wall set up as an array.

Task: Select which state of water applies to a list of places where water can be found. Assessment focus: states of water.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students calculate the area of four different triangle shapes on a grid.

Task: describe how different features of a racing car help it go fast. Assessment focus: technological responses to forces.

Students read an article about Tuatara to be able to fill in a chart with specific information. SJ-1-3-1998. Text provided.

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Students will identify and use nouns, adjectives, and verbs to write a poem that follows the same structure as given in two examples.

Students read scales to measure images of objects to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

For this task students look at a diagram showing household electrical wires and then answer some questions about these.

In this practical task, students estimate, then measure, the weight of two bags using kitchen scales.

Students use addition and subtraction to work out costs related to the purchase of grocery items.

Students read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

After reading a narrative about a shrewd boy, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysing and evaluating a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age 8-9. SJ-2-4-2000. Text provided.

Students read a poster on sand dunes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students complete number sequences, and identify different rules for sequences that begin with the same numbers.

Students interpret five business logos and write a brief statement describing the likely nature of the business.

Students select the correct fraction of vegetables to click and drag into a soup pot.

Students select the correct fraction of toys to click and drag into a suitcase.

Students select the correct fraction of food items to click and drag into a chilly bin.