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Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa when working out quantities of bottles and glasses of fizzy drink for a party.

Students identify whether to use 'there' or 'their' in a piece of student writing.

Students write both open and closed questions about the importance of smartphones to students their age.

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

Students first do the science activity Throwing Balloons - investigation (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.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Students write number sentences for story problems, and create story problems from number sentences.

Students work out the area of different shapes.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of practical measuring tasks including calculations involving time and selection of appropriate units of measuring.

A story about getting rid of family junk is the context for this task. Students find evidence to make inferences about the characters. SJ-1-4-1998. Text not provided.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

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 identify one possible original number from a given rounded number.

Students use a table of some substances and their pHs to answer four questions.

Students answer questions from a histogram of distance of discus throws. Calculation is required.

Students decide if a graph is suitable to display category data and explain the reasons.

Students interpret a dot plot showing the number of books read by a class of students.

Students interpret information presented in a bar graph to answer questions.

Students interpret information presented in a bar graph to answer questions and calculate averages.

Task: Select the most suitable thermometer to use for different purposes and answer two questions about scale. Assessment focus: making measurement decisions.

Task: Plan a fair test to see which of two solar showers of different colours heats up more. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

Students interpret a bar graph showing the number of different types of shell collected on a beach.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

Task: Identify from an experiment the preferred living conditions of slaters, and use a fact file to suggest reasons why. Assessment focus: interpreting results of an investigation.