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To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Buddha.

Students read a short extract on diving and answer five comprehension questions.

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.)

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 read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

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

Students read an advertisement and retrieve information and make inferences from it.

Advertising provides the context for this resource that has an assessment focus on vocabulary, repetition, tone and comprehension.

Students read an article about using the Web wisely to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read an extract from a drama script and answer questions on props, dialogue, and stage sets. (The text used is reproduced in the the Teacher information pages.)

The assessment focus is on student ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

A montage of ideas about body piercing is the stimulus for questions that require students to unpack synonyms, colloquial language, and referring words.

Students read an article on parachuting and complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions.

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about conservation projects for endangered species.

This comprehension task involves a poem being disclosed in stages. It assesses a student's ability to use evidence in the poem to predict what it could be describing.

Students read a poem titled 'The Sea' and explain the meanings of some of the language used.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify and justify evidence used to visualise and make inferences about a character and setting.

This task is about using evidence to get 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.

A newspaper article on working from home is the stimulus for this resource. The assessment focus is on looking at both sides of an issue, vocabulary and comprehension.

Students read a Japanese folk tale and answer questions on characters, comprehension, and aspects of the short story genre.

Students read an extract on the Rimutaka incline to answer comprehension and vocabulary questions.