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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.

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.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

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

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.

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

Students estimate and tally the number of each activity their partner completes in 30 seconds. They then identify the best estimate.

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.

Students use estimation strategies to calculate the number of vegetables they can buy with given amounts of money.

For this practical task students are required to follow, by physically stepping them out, a set of compass directions.

Students find the next three shapes in several growing shape patterns and explain how they worked out the shapes.

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

Students calculate the repair charges for two different washing machine repair companies, and compare and explain their results.

Students solve mathematical problems involving distance, and identify parts of an algebraic expression.

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

Students show how to solve some subtraction problems.

After reading a narrative that is about sibling rivalry, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysis and evaluation of a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age <8. SJ-1-5-2004. Text provided.

Students use evidence in a text to make inferences about a character's feelings. They analyse these within scaffolding activities, synthesising their thinking to suggest the author's message.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

Students first do the science activity Throwing Balloons 2 (PW2548) 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 writing task where they describe the balloon and what happened when it was 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.

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

Students show or explain how two different fraction numbers can represent the same fraction.

Students predict nets that fold to make a cube, then cut out and fold the nets to check their prediction.

Students show how to solve a series of algebraic expressions by substituting given numbers.