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Task: Students answer questions about a Southern Ocean food web. Assessment focus: interpreting food webs.

Task: describe how different features of a racing car help it go fast. Assessment focus: technological responses to forces.

Students read a story 'The Gift' and answer questions about comprehension, point of view and inference.

After reading a narrative that explores family dynamics, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysing and evaluating 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 8-9. SJ-3-3-2003.

Students read a narrative that is about being different and about group dynamics. Assessment focus: an evaluation of characters and the author's construction of them. (A link to the text is provided. Reading age <8.) SJ-1-4-2005. Text provided.

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

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

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

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

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

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

Students compare two fractions, find the larger fraction and show or explain their reasoning.

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

Students show how to partition a number of counters and identify the fraction shared.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.