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This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students use all four operations to perform calculations using decimal values.

Students identify parts of algebraic equations and use the equations to calculate temperatures in the Antarctic at different times of the day.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students to interpret pie graphs by answering questions about percentages and numerical values.

Students decide whether the times written in words under analogue clocks are correct.

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

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Students find and write the numbers to complete equations that add to 10 or 20.

Students convert fractions to decimals and explain how to do it.

Students read a narrative about a family's encounter with a stray cat. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to evaluate the characters. SJ-1-3-2008. Text provided.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

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

Students make inferences from a poem. SJ-2-4-1993. Text provided.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

Students first do the science activity Throwing balloons 3 or Throwing balloons 4 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 resource's writing task where they describe the balloon and what happens when it is 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.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

Task: Use close observation of photos and prior knowledge, to write explanations of how the special features of animal tongues help animals survive in their habitats. Assessment focus: structure and function.

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

Students are asked one multiple-choice and one short answer question about fair testing.

Students are provided with six pictures of animals. They identify those that can fly, and explain what these animals have in common.

Task: Read a short piece of narrative. Identify and explain the behavioural adaptations of oystercatchers. Assessment focus: interpreting text to identify behavioural adaptations and their purposes.

Task: Look for similarities and differences in fruit to answer questions about observation and evidence.