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Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

This resource assesses students' ability to select appropriate key words, from a given list, for the purpose of finding information that can be used to answer a given question. Students' ability to generate key words is also assessed.

Students read an extract about selecting suitable trees to build a waka then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students write an argument either for or against daily physical education in schools. Support materials and links to exemplars for writing an argument are given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students make inferences from visual cues and make links between visual and written text. SJ-2-3-1997.

Students read a recipe and its visual text to make inferences. SJ 1-2-1998.

This resource has an assessment focus on comprehension. Students study the poem 'Learning to Read' and respond to four short written response style questions. SJ-3-3-1989. Text provided.

A poem about Samoa is read and then retrieval and inference questions are answered about the author's choice of title and her key ideas. Text provided.

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

Students read a poem to answer questions that focus on the language used. Text provided.

Students read a narrative and make inferences about the characters' feelings based on evidence in the text. Text is provided with this resource. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

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

Students unpack a picture, making inferences from its visual cues. SJ-1-2-1998. Text provided.

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

Students interpret a series of road safety drawings with questions on visual cues, titles, emphasis and providing appropriate text.

Students study a poster about the benefits of exercise and make inferences from written and visual information.

Students look at a water safety poster and answer questions relating to the posters construction.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.

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

Students read an article about castles to complete a retrieval chart using information from the text. SJ-1-2-1995. Text provided.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

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

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.