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In this resource, students write instructions to match each photograph about making a pūrerehua. SJ-1-1-2001. Text provided.

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.

Students present a 'show and tell' for a small group. The focus includes discussion, handling questions, and bringing the session to a close. Speaking assessment guide C (Peer assessment) is suitable for this task.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech, to inform, persuade, or entertain. Topics suitable for primary students are provided. Assessment guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students read an article about a cockatoo to find factual information. Junior Journal 17. Text not provided.

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 attempt to persuade the adults in their families that they should be able to have a dog. They construct an argument by writing replies to the adults' statements.

This task assesses students' understanding of how to communicate with an audience. Students identify the voice expressions and sound effects needed for a play, "Who pushed Humpty Dumpty?" (Text used is reproduced as a pdf under "Using this resource" tab.) SJ-2-2-1998. Text provided.

Students add up the times for a number of exercises to get the total.

From two different street sign pictures and their enlargements, students are to identify the scale factor of each enlargement and either a missing length or the missing factor when enlarging the area.

Students use multiplication and division to work out the number of boxes of cherries picked, and cartons filled.

Students answer questions that require calculations with distance, time and speed.

Students solve practical word problems.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical features, students identify which animal is being described.

This resource is about students continuing linear or quadratic spatial patterns, and giving rules for them.

Students read statements based on a bar graph and show understanding by marking whether each statement is correct.

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character. SJ-1-3-1996. Text not provided.

Students complete a cloze passage about koalas using their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

A brief poem about hedgehogs is read to students who then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students complete a table giving definitions and examples of proper, common, collective, and abstract nouns.

Students write 3-digit numbers in compact and expanded form.

Explain how to test if a solution is an acid or not, and describe and explain what happens if rusty nails are put in an acid. Assessment focus: acid reactions.

Students calculate the area of a range of rectangular shapes.