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Students read a narrative about relationships and wanting to impress others. Assessment focus: the author’s construction of a character and an evaluation of this character.

This task is about using evidence to find the main idea of a text. Students read a narrative text with a Māori context, find two groups of details, then select the main idea from four choices. Note that the text deals with the hunting and slaughter of pigs, which may be a challenging concept for some of your students. SJ-4-2-2004. Text provided.

Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)

Students interpret information presented in a tree diagram to calculate the probability of various events.

Students read a collage of students' statements about the battle at Gallipoli and respond to questions on fonts, symbols, visual background, and issues. SJ-4-2-1997.

Students use subtraction to solve word problems involving fractions.

Students share total numbers of objects according to some given ratios in a variety of contexts.

Students work out the cost of items of clothing both before and after GST has been added to them.

Students calculate the cost per kilogram of three confectionery hampers.

Students identify significant figures in given numbers, and round numbers to a given number of significant figures.

Students perform calculations using fractions with different denominators.

Students perform calculations using whole numbers and negative numbers.

Students throw three coins, and answer questions on frequency, probability, and compare theoretical with observed outcomes.

Students interpret a line graph to answer 4 multiple choice questions about a car along a racing track.

Students complete a table then describe and write a rule to work out the number of matchsticks needed to make alien shape patterns.

Students interpret distance-time graphs that show a car's movement and draw their own graph from given statements.

Task: Match terms with definition. Assessment focus: science vocabulary.

Students read a story 'The Gift' and answer questions about comprehension, point of view and inference.

Task: Answer six true or false questions. Assessment focus: Definitions of genetic terms.

Task: Give examples of described energy transformations, and name energy transformations involved with named objects.

Task: Select the corect term for stored energy, identify the type of stored energy of three examples, and describe energy transformations. Assessment focus: potential energy.

This task requires students to calculate the size of angles using their knowledge of angles and parallel lines: alternate angles, corresponding angles and co-interior angles. Understanding of adjacent angles on a straight line is also required.

Students read about a flu immunisation program and answer five questions to show their understanding of the text.

A newspaper story about a runaway weather balloon with a map that tracks its progress is the context for this assessment. Students read it to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.