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

Students read a narrative about a family's encounter with a stray cat. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to evaluate the characters. SJ-1-3-2008. Text provided.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing that is 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'.

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

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

This punctuation resource is on the use of brackets. Students explain when brackets are used, then insert them into four sentences.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a bookshop requesting information about a book.

Students express interest in a job by writing a letter and a message to leave on an answer phone.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

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

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

This resource assesses knowledge of speaking techniques and students answer questions on the speech opening, control of audience, speech notes, and closing of speech.

Students read some examples of metaphors that have been extended then write their own. They also reflect on why writers use metaphors.

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 use a given example of a blurb about a book to create their own blurb for a book of their choice.

This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.

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

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.

Students reflect on notes taken during a rugby game to write an effective report. They also consider some features that will add effect to their report. A link to student support material is given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.