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From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe personal attributes, students identify which person is being described.

Task: Play a card game to join two sentence fragments to complete a sentence. Assessment focus: a) relationships of elements in a waterway, and b) science vocabulary.

Students identify phrases within sentences which provide additional information, and enclose these phrases using commas.

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

Students compare the costs of printing a school magazine at two different companies.

Task: Students identify which different events threaten our native birds or have done so in the past. Assessment focus: identification of the specific impacts of human actions.

Students listen to a folktale to recall information and make inferences.

Students read an extract from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

For this task students select two kinds of activity from those labelled on a diagram of an erupting volcano. Students write a description and the problems or dangers associated with each activity.

Task: use a chart comparing the features of insects and spiders to decide which group a wētā belongs in. Assessment Focus: classification.

Students solve mathematical problems involving distance, and identify parts of an algebraic expression.

Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.

Task: Students read a short written text to explain how the special features of wild ginger help it survive. Assessment focus: explanation of wild ginger's special features and why it is a pest plant.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

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

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.

Task: Measure 100mL of water into three different pieces of equipment. Weigh the result and calculate the precision of using that piece of equipment. Assessment focus: measuring and evaluating the accuracy of equipment.

Students find the sum of a number of given decimal weights of objects or the post.

Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea in a text about bridge construction.

Task: Students play a tag game that simulates the relationships between elements within a waterway and discuss how different scenarios impact on the populations living there. Assessment focus: changes within a habitat affect everything living there.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in or near a waterway, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a waterways environment.

In this task students compare two photographs of a river with normal flow and a river in flood. They make inferences based on their observations.