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An anecdotal story about fever and the discovery of quinine provides the context for this assessment with its focus on information retrieval and making inferences. The text is provided with this resource.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

Students study a range of signs to identify their similarities of meaning, layout, and purpose.

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

Students read a non-fiction contents page to identify where to go for different information.

Students complete a plant record for a tree by making observations.

This resource assesses students' ability to select appropriate key words, from a given list, for the purpose of finding information that can be used to answer a given question. Students' ability to generate key words is also assessed.

This practical task requires students to construct open boxes from grid paper and calculate their volumes.

Task: Identify the variables for testing how fresh water and salt water affect rusting. Assessment focus: planning a fair test.

Task: Students apply both their knowledge of the functions of roots and information from a model to explain why care is needed when transplanting trees. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

This resource assesses a student's ability to skim quickly and find the answers to eight questions about islands in the Pacific. It is a timed exercise.

Students explore the concept of equality by deciding whether addition sentences are true, false or not proper number sentences.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students draw a scatterplot of a table of data and describe the relationship between the two variables.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

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

Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.

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

Students solve problems involving finding simple fractions of quantities, and show their working.

Students calculate the repair charges of two different garages, graph them, and explain the results.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication, and show their working.

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.