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This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students need to interpret data about travel time to school and common after-school activities and identify which statement is true from a list of given statements.

This practical task requires students to record temperatures of various areas in the school and to suggest reasons why some areas are warmer or cooler than others.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.

Students are provided with a diagram showing rock layers. Students use this diagram to answer a number of questions.

Students write addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division story problems for given car advertisements.

This resource assesses knowledge of speaking techniques and students answer questions on the speech opening, control of audience, speech notes, and closing of speech.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on heat loss from two different shaped objects (a cube and a sphere). They answer questions on variable control, repeat trialling, and they then graph data from this investigation.

Students are provided with nutritional information on three different types of milk. Students use this information to answer a number of questions.

Students use co-ordinates to identify a coded message.

In this practical task, students estimate and then measure how far they can jump.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Task: Answer two questions about variables in an investigation about insulation and complete a graph. Assessment focus: fair testing.

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.

Students are assessed on their ability to use the modelled features of a thesaurus to create their own thesaurus page.

Task: read an article about releasing hand-reared kaka into a safe environment and answer questions about the research. Assessment focus: field investigations.

Students read a passage about a genetic characteristic found in a family. They use this information to complete a representation of an inheritance diagram by shading in and naming the persons of this family. Lastly a question about dominance and recessiveness is asked.

Students are given a diagram and information on the ratios of black- to grey-coated possums. Students answer questions relating to this information as well as identifying a method that could be used to determine the percentage of each coat colour.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on metal corrosion and a graph of some results. Students' ability to interpret the graph and knowledge of fair testing is assessed via short answer questions.

Students read a poem titled 'The Sea' and explain the meanings of some of the language used.