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Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech, to inform, persuade, or entertain. Topics suitable for secondary students are provided. Assessment guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Students explain what an adjective is and identify adjectives in some sentences.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

Students prepare and give a speech suitable for presenting a certificate to a junior student. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students write an invitation to a party.

Students are provided with information about the structure of a haiku poem. They identify the syllables in another haiku poem, and then write their own.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech to inform, persuade, or entertain. A list of topics suitable for Year 7/8 students is provided. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Students complete sentences by adding a given noun or pronoun and using an apostrophe as required.

Students identify whether to use 'there' or 'their' in a piece of student writing.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

Students look at a poster and make interpretations of the relationship between the image and the text.

Students read an article on milking cows and then find information in it to complete a retrieval chart.

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

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

Students use a page from a telephone directory to answer questions identifying phone numbers, fax numbers and internet addresses.

Students look at a cartoon and make interpretations in looking at visual features.

Students study a brochure and identify the visual features that link to its purpose.

Students look at the types, uses and effects of different camera shots.

This assessment is based on an anti-cigarette poster from the Cancer Society. Students answer five short answer response questions on repetition, the message, and the major visual images.

Four conventions for speech bubbles are presented with the students showing their understanding by having matching appropriate text to the bubbles.

This assessment takes the context of the New Zealand flag and has questions that focus on presenting, layout, symbols, and visual cues.

In Part 1 students identify visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the poem. In Part 2, students create a text to communicate ideas visually. Annotated student work samples of Part 2 are provided.

The context for this oral assessment is an informative speech about a famous person. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Using a picture as stimulus, students use nouns and verbs to create well-formed sentences.