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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.

Students fill in speech bubbles from direct speech in sentences. The purpose of this activity is to assess students' ability to identify the words actually spoken.

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.

From given examples, students define four root words then complete a chart of root words and their meanings.

Students read and then show a conversation using characters and speech bubbles.

Students write an advertisement to sell a kayak on a website.

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

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

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 task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of explanation.

This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of persuasion.

Students are required to identify arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos and then use these to write a paragraph expressing their point of view about this issue.

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students create simple then compound sentences to go with a photo, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students attempt to persuade the adults in their families that they should be able to have a dog. They construct an argument by writing replies to the adults' statements.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.