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An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

Task: Students describe two features of a skull that suggest it comes from a herbivore. Assessment focus: features of a herbivore's skull.

Task: Students decide what sort of animals two skulls belong to. A self-assessment checklist is included. Assessment focus: using evidence to identify carnivores and herbivores.

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.

Task: match seed description to a dispersal method. Assessment focus: seed dispersal.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.

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

Students read a narrative and make inferences about the characters' feelings based on evidence in the text. Text is provided with this resource. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Students are required to identify whether a series of statements about the School Journal story 'Personal Mail' are true or false, and to support their opinion with evidence from the text. This task assesses students' retrieval and inferential comprehension skills. SJ-3-1-1991. Text provided.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Students answer three questions by interpreting a weather map and other forecast information.

Students identify the 2-dimensional shapes on a robot's body.

This resource has students comparing four advertisements on holiday camps and identifying the meaning of a slogan.

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

Students interpret data presented in a frequency table to calculate percentages and make comparisons.

Students record the number of different shapes on a tally chart and total each.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

Students use given ratios to determine the number of people performing kapa haka.

Students read a one-page article on DNA testing and answer four selected response questions about the aim and purpose of the article.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text about a Māori naturalist/scientist. Students are asked to read a text, identify the main idea from three choices provided, and then justify why they think their choice is right.

Students read about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, identify an asexual plant by budding characteristics and answer two questions on the advantages of asexual reproduction.

Students draw a line from each genetic term to its correct definition.

Students complete sequential number patterns.

This practical task requires you to estimate the dimensions of a room, then check with a metre ruler and calculate the volume of the room.