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This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

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

Students read a visual and written text about native plants and animals to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

A poem about fleas from a School Journal is the context for this resource. The assessment focus is on making inferences.

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

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to use evidence in a text to work out what a poem could be about as it is disclosed in stages.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Students read a poster on sand dunes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students make inferences from a poem.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions.

Students read an article about a boy who loves sculpting insects to answer retrieval and inferential questions. (The text used for this resource is in the teacher information pages.).

Students read part of a play called 'No Circulars' and then answer retrieval and and inferential questions. The play is reproduced in the Teacher information pages.

Students read a text containing instructions then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details in a text that support the given main idea.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

Students read the poem 'Shipwreck Bay' and answer inferential questions that also draw on prior knowledge.

Students read an extract from a play then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a text.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a narrative text about a person's experience of war and their learnings from it.

Students read a poem, then retrieve information and make inferences from it. The text used is copied into the resource; it can also be located in School Journal, Part 2, No. 1, 1999.