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

For this NEMP task students look at an humorous image of Santa and complete a thought bubble.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.

For this NEMP task students are required to fill out a form to join a Fun Club.

This NEMP task requires students to write a story book for a young person using a sequence of pictures.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

For this NEMP task students cut out and order a sequence of pictures and write captions to tell a story.

A short extract on how chocolate fish are made is the subject of this assessment on listening. It has 5 multiple-choice questions.

Students match ten topics or subjects to the correct Dewey Decimal call number.

For this NEMP task students read a poem about 'Me' and then write a poem about their own 'special self'.

This listening comprehension assessment is based on a short extract from a school journal on moving an old house. SJ-2-3-1995. Text not provided.

Students read a narrative about a girl who behaves like an overly enthusiastic parent and her father who behaves like a reluctantly involved adolescent. They use and evaluate evidence from the text, alongside their background knowledge, to complete the task. SJ-3-2-2010. Text not provided.

A poem and brief article about Japanese dolls is the context for this comprehension resource that has focus on comparisons and purpose. SJ-2-2-1983. Text provided.

Students read a story about a girl's first night in Samoa. Then they decide whether some statements are true or false and give evidence from the text to back up their responses. There is a link to the text used in the "Using this Resource" tab. SJ-1-1-1996. Text provided.

Students identify common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists, and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

From a school newspaper interview about a school production, students complete a retrieval chart for a press release. The assessment focus is on identifying key information.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

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

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

Students read an article on Mother Teresa and then answer short comprehension questions.

For this NEMP task students listened to a set of directions, then followed instructions to show this information on a map.

A poem about trying to fly is the basis of this resource. Students read the poem then answer questions on its illustrations, rhyme, content and vocabulary. SJ-3-1-1994.

Students use an index page from a book on New Zealand to answer six questions.