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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.

Students read an essay on school uniforms then mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

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

This transactional writing resource requires students to express their views about organ donation.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

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

A letter without capitals is the context of this punctuation assessment. Students insert capitals for a number of different purposes.

Students identify common spelling errors and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

Students write a set of instructions after reading a poem about cooking. Students self-assess their writing before conferencing with the teacher to set their next learning steps.

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.

Students write a set of instructions after reading a science article about growing crystals. Students assess their own writing using the supports provided.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students read a story about rabbits and mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

Students first do the science activity Throwing balloons 3 or Throwing balloons 4 where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this resource's writing task where they describe the balloon and what happens when it is thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.