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Students calculate the surface area of the sides and top of a cylinder, showing their working.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students to apply their understanding of basic wave behaviour at the sea shore to make an inference about waves in a different but analogous context: to predict where the worst damage might occur in an earthquake.

Task: Match cards to show the relationship of birds' beaks and feet to the food they eat. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Students recognise equal and different likelihoods when playing a game of chance.

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 place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

Students find the unknown for a range of equations that require number property knowledge and understanding of relational thinking.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.

Task: students investigate the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: processing information to answer a question.

This task requires students to do a visual character analysis from an image out of Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story, retold by Lynn Roberts and illustrated by David Roberts. Due to the pervasive nature of the story of Cinderella and the complexity of the imagery from this particular book, it is expected that students will draw on both their previous knowledge of the fairytale and the descriptive elements of the illustration to make a subjective, but valid, interpretation of character.

Students are required to identify whether a series of statements about the School Journal story 'Personal Mail' are true or false, and to support their opinion with evidence from the text. This task assesses students' retrieval and inferential comprehension skills. SJ-3-1-1991. Text provided.

Students find the number of groups of a given size using division, reverse multiplication, trial and improvement, or iterative equal sharing. Students must show their working.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a transactional text about blushing. SJ-4-1-2006. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a narrative text about acknowledging older people. SJ-3-3-2006. Text provided.

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.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem. It assesses a student's ability to use evidence to predict what it could be describing. SJ-2-4-1994. Text provided.

Students read an article about an investigation into the sustainable harvest of pīkao and identify key features of the investigation. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.