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A short extract on how chocolate fish are made is the subject of this assessment on listening. It has 5 multiple-choice questions.

Students read about skinks and geckos and identify information relating to the similarities and differences between them. The information that students identify is rewritten in note form.

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

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

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Students are assessed on their ability to retrieve details that support the main idea of an article about an endangered species.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

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

This task assesses the understanding needed to punctuate direct speech by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech.

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

Students use given numbers to work out rules.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on Inuit carving.

A newspaper article on the Wearable Art show is the context for this resource, with five short written response comprehension questions.

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

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

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

Students identify spelling errors in common homophones and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

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

Students identify what type of people the characters in the story are and choose evidence from the text to justify their decisions; they also identify the main idea of the text. Suggestions for evaluating character and the author's style of characterisation are under the "Working with Students" tab.