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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.

Students read an article about the development of safety glass to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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

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

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

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

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

Students are provided with four diagrams of different types of fossils. Students are asked to explain the type of information each of these fossils could provide.

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

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 read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A brief poem about hedgehogs is read to students who then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A lively narrative about a pig hunt provides the context for this listening comprehension resource. Students recall information and make inferences.

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

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical features, students identify which animal is being described.

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

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

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

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

Students read a short story about swimming in summer and answer questions about comprehension and inference. SJ-2-1-1992. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to use evidence in text to make inferences about characters' points of view, and to analyse and synthesise understandings of these characters.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.