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Students prepare a talk on a personal experience, interest, or activity.

Students provide short written answers to questions on the advantages and disadvantages of interviews as source material. They then practise writing effective interview questions.

Students create character vignettes with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Using a page from a dictionary, this resource assesses students' dictionary skills through a series of short answer and selected response questions.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

Students complete a cloze passage with 28 blanks about a rugby game. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included. SJ-1-2-1998. Text provided.

Students identify how many unit squares cover given 2-dimensional shapes.

Assessment focus: ability to interpret visual texts though de-constructing messages to access multiple layers of meaning, by drawing on both the text and previous knowledge and experiences.

Students calculate the area and perimeter of four shapes on a grid.

Students order five situations involving different temperatures of water from hottest to coldest.

Using a diagram of a spinner, students choose the chances of the arrow landing on particular numbers.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students calculate the areas of four composite shapes.

Students sort different shapes into tessellating and not tessellating categories and explain their reasoning.

Students sort shapes using two attributes, and recognise where the attributes overlap.

Students read a visual and written text about native plants and animals to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students select the correct name for regular quadrilateral shapes.

Students draw reflections of an object with a mirror line.

Students describe a variable in a linear equation, solve the equation, and complete a second equation relating to weights.

Students find missing numbers to complete addition, subtraction and multiplication number patterns.

Students identify which transformations could have been used one shape onto another.

Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.) SJ-2-1-2006. Text provided.

A poem about fleas from a School Journal is the context for this resource. The assessment focus is on making inferences. SJ-3-1-1999. Text provided.

Students use multiplication to solve problems about window cleaning an office building.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.