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This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify the adjectives in a short story about making breakfast.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

A tale about a character who resolves a problem creatively provides the context for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to fill in the missing words.

The traditional fable of 'Hare and Tortoise' is presented as a cloze article in this resource. Students draw on their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to create well-formed sentences.

Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

Students are required to identify the verbs in a short story about a boy jumping off a diving board.

This task assesses students' ability to provide examples of different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) in the context of writing two four-word alliteration poems.

Students will identify and use nouns, adjectives, and verbs to write a poem that follows the same structure as given in two examples.

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

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Students read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

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

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

Students complete a cloze passage on the antics of an escaped otter. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences. SJ-2-2-2000. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details that support them to identify the main idea in a text about an endangered species of New Zealand. Reading age 8.5-9.5. SJ-1-4-2005. Text provided.

Students create character vignettes with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.