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Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea of a narrative concerning one child's experience of White Sunday in Sāmoa.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a geologist. Junior Journal 21. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a conservation project for an endangered species. Junior Journal 13. Text provided

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about plants. Junior Journal 27, reading age 7.5-8. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of a recount about needing to take action. Junior Journal 29. Text provided.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text. Students are asked to read a text then complete three short tasks. Junior Journal 30. Text not provided.

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character. SJ-1-3-1996. Text not provided.

Students use a number line to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Task: Interpret a flowchart and text to identify in what ways goats are pests. Assessment focus: identifying ways in which goats are pests and how they are controlled.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

Students find and show given fractions of shapes and sets of counters.

Students identify and give rules for when numbers are divisible by three or by nine.

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

Students identify the most likely combination of throws for a fair coin, and explain their reasons.

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

Students write number sentences for story problems, and create story problems from number sentences.

In this practical task students need to weigh books, take measurements of length, convert these as required, and calculate volume and dimensions for a cover.

Students colour and cut out 4 shapes and fit them together to make tessellating patterns.

As students listen to the teacher read an adapted version of 'The Three Little Pigs' they construct a line graph showing how frightened the third little pig was feeling.

Students complete a table based on an algebraic formula for free fall velocity, plot the results, and interpret the graph.

This practical task requires students to record data, which is read out to them, on a stem-and-leaf graph. The leaves are then ordered into a second graph and the graph interpreted.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

In this practical task, students estimate and then measure temperatures.