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An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Students are required to identify and interpret the metaphors in two short poems.

Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

Students estimate and tally the number of each activity their partner completes in 30 seconds. They then identify the best estimate.

Students read an article about the development of safety glass to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students show how to break given amounts into a number of equal sized groups and find the amount each person gets.

Students identify the number of dots in the <i>n</i>th shape of a series of spatial patterns.

Task: select a card to show how to control the variables of an investigation into the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

Students read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students create simple then compound sentences to go with a photo, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This practical task has two parts. The first part of this practical requires students to observe the effects of different indicators on different substances. Students use these results to identify if some other substances are acid, alkali, or neutral.

Task: Answer questions about a key for metals: Assessment focus: recognising the purpose of a specific key.

This task requires a hyacinth bulb to be set up in a glass container. As it develops and grows students make observations.

This practical task consists of two parts. Students test various substances with hydrochloric acid, iodine solution, and universal indicator, and then complete a table with their observations. The second part requires students to identify four unknown solids using their tests and results from part one.

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical attributes, students identify which animal is being described.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

This practical assessment requires students to design and carry out tests on three properties of four different fabrics in order to find the most suitable fabric for the stated purpose.