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

This resource assesses students dictionary skills through a range of short answer questions. These are given in relation to a provided dictionary page, although another dictionary page could be used.

Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.

Students read a Junior Journal article about tree cutting. From their comprehension of the story they complete a retrieval chart and explain the figurative language used.

This resource assesses points of view on the issue of keeping score in sport, with the task being to match statements to the views expressed by four students.

The context of this task is a story about a power cut. Students identify the changing feelings of the children in the story and record these as a graph over time.

Students use an index from a book on windsurfing to explain their understandings of an index and to find specific information.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read fifteen statements and identify the six statements of opinion.

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

For this NEMP task students work out how many cows will be in a cattle yard from a story written in comic form.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students use rounding to estimate totals then discuss this as a method of estimation.

Task: Predict whether given objects will float, investigate, then record and explain results. Assessment focus: flotation.

Students interpret a histogram showing the number of vehicles travelling at different speeds past a speed camera. Students need to calculate a percentage and the median to complete this task.

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

A montage of ideas about body piercing is the stimulus for questions that require students to unpack synonyms, colloquial language, and referring words.

Students study a short transcript of part of a debate and answer six short questions on debating techniques and procedures.

Students use information in a table about exploding bottles of ginger beer to find the fractions and percentages of bottles that exploded or stayed sealed in given weeks.

Student use an extract from a telephone directory to answer questions identifying phone numbers, fax numbers, and internet address.

In this practical task, students use a coloured spinner and record the frequency of colours occurring. They then use their findings to record the probability of each event and interpret these.

Students draw the next two triangles in a spatial pattern, calculate the areas of a range of triangles, work out the height of a triangle given its area, and write a rule for the pattern.

For this NEMP task students show their understanding of the life cycle, functions and parts of a tree.