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Notes on reproduction in some animals have been provided, and students are asked to give reasons for the different processes.

Students explain their understandings of the benefits of having trees in the school playground.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in and near a flax bush, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a flax bush environment.

Task: Students identify which different events threaten our native birds or have done so in the past. Assessment focus: identification of the specific impacts of human actions.

Students read an extract about selecting suitable trees to build a waka then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students write an argument either for or against daily physical education in schools. Support materials and links to exemplars for writing an argument are given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students read a poem and make links between its written and visual information. SJ-2-4-1993.

Students make inferences from visual cues and make links between visual and written text. SJ-2-3-1997.

Four different vertebrate animals are illustrated. For each animal the student needs to name the body part used by each animal to move, and then explain how this part makes the animal move.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify the adjectives in a short story about making breakfast.

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

Students read a recipe and its visual text to make inferences. SJ 1-2-1998.

From diagrams of four original and enlarged drawings to be used for Christmas wrapping paper, students identify the scale factor used and find a missing length on either the enlarged picture or the original picture.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students read the poem 'Don't be Wet' and complete two tables to show their understanding of puns. SJ-3-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.

This resource has an assessment focus on comprehension. Students study the poem 'Learning to Read' and respond to four short written response style questions. SJ-3-3-1989. Text provided.

Students read a poem to explore the language it uses. SJ-4-3-1995. Text provided.

A poem about Samoa is read and then retrieval and inference questions are answered about the author's choice of title and her key ideas. Text provided.

Students view an illustration and read a poem entitled 'The Dinosaur Climber's Kit' and then answer retrieval and inferential questions. An awareness of rhyme is explored. SJ-2-3-1994. Text provided.

The start of a spatial pattern of triangles is shown and described in a table. Students generate more of the pattern and describe the relationships algebraically.

For this practical task students make a prediction about which lot of ice will melt first. Then students record their observations and explain why one lot of ice melted faster than the other.

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

Students describe algebraic expressions in words.

Task: use information and observation skills to identify whether pictures of fish are either bony fish or sharks. Assessment focus: classification, interpreting a Venn diagram.