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For this practical task students determine the viscosity of different household susbstances such as golden syrup, cooking oil, fruit juice etc. Students complete the experiment and construct a chart showing their results and observations.

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.

This is a resource in which the students read a short story 'The Reading Room' and answer ten short written questions. SJ-3-1-1998. Text provided.

Task: Students identify which different events threaten our native birds or have done so in the past. Assessment focus: identification of the specific impacts of human actions.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

Students read the description of a number of surveys and explain why the sample is biased.

Students are provided with drawings of the main types of fingerprints. Students then make their own fingerprint and those of three other students. They then classify and describe the differences between these prints.

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

Students use visual clues in a comic strip to answer inferential questions.

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.

This resource requires students to answer four selected response questions on a table of contents from the book 'Antarctica'.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Students draw shapes of given areas, and choose from the bigger area, explaining their reasoning.

Assessment focus: finding important information and the main idea of an informational text. The text used is about an introduced species of fish which has become a pest. SJ-2-4-2005. Text provided.

Students solve addition maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

For this practical task students investigate some features of craters, complete a table, and explain what they found out. Students then use a diagram showing some craters on the Moon to write as much information as they can about these craters.

An example of a personal letter provides the context, with questions about letter formats and abbreviations being the assessment focus.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

Students identify which shapes are identical to a given shape that have been rotated.

Students read a narrative then complete three tasks that focus on one of the characters. Assessment focus: an evaluation of a character and the author's construction of that character. SJ-4-3-2004. 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.

A poem about fleas from a School Journal is the context for this resource. The assessment focus is on making inferences. SJ-3-1-1999. Text provided.

Students complete a cloze passage with 27 blanks on the release of a killer whale. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

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

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.