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Students read a personal recount about family relationships in a Pacific context. Assessment focus: the author's construction of two characters and an evaluation of them.

In this practical task, students follow a plan to construct a water timer. They then put on markings for times 1-5 minutes based on observations and recordings.

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.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

Pairs of students play a game with four dice, calculate the probability of winning the game, comment on how to get a more accurate estimate of the probability, and explain whether the game is fair based on their results.

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

From a school newspaper interview about a school production, students complete a retrieval chart for a press release. The assessment focus is on identifying key information.

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 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.

Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.) Reading age 9.5-10.5. SJ-2-2006. Text provided.

Students show how to partition shapes into a given number of equal parts and identify the fraction of each part.

Students find different ways to divide squares into halves and quarters.

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

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

Students are assessed on their ability to retrieve details that support the main idea of an article about an endangered species.

For this NEMP task students read a poem about 'Me' and then write a poem about their own 'special self'.

Students complete open number sentences to show their understanding of equality.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.

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

Students select the correct way to describe where a toy is located on a shelf.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

Students calculate volumes of composite shapes, showing their working.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

Students decide whether pairs of number expressions are equal to, less than, or greater than each other.