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This is a grammar knowledge resource where students match nine parts of speech and their definitions.

Students are required to read an article, answer questions and complete a retrieval chart.

Students read a comic strip and answer questions about comprehension and inference. SJ-2-1-1991.

Students read a cartoon to answer retrieval and inferential questions about the story and the visual techniques used. SJ-1-1-1994.

Students read an article about Tuatara to be able to fill in a chart with specific information. SJ-1-3-1998. Text provided.

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

This resource has the parts of an article (on flight) numbered and assesses the student knowledge about where to locate different sorts of information in the article.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to research.

The assessment focus is on the ability to use information skills.

This oral assessment is designed to be given to a small group. The audience asks questions at the end of the speech. A selection of scoring guides is provided.

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

For this NEMP task students interpret a promotional map of the Coromandel Peninsula.

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

The language of debating is assessed as students provide explanations of emotional argument, limited example, empathy, empty argument, rebuttal, refutation, and irrelevant conclusion.

Using the whare tapawhā model of hauora (well-being), students explore the different dimensions of health, and write an explanation of how each can be cared for. The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation.

Students are required to identify arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos and then use these to write a paragraph expressing their point of view about this issue.

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

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

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

Students identify spelling errors in common homophones and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students identify what type of people the characters in the story are and choose evidence from the text to justify their decisions; they also identify the main idea of the text. Suggestions for evaluating character and the author's style of characterisation are under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students read excerpts from a speech and identify seven features of the language and describe their intended effect on an audience.

A school journal article on living in a Japanese home is the context for this assessment that focuses on locating information and general comprehension. SJ-1-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem, retrieve information, and then use this information to make inferences. The text used is shown into the resource. It can also be located in School Journal, Part 2, No. 1, 1999. SJ-2-1-1999. Text provided.