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Students decide whether a graph is suitable to display category data and explain their answer.

Students listen to a narrative about an unusual mouse and then respond to 6 multiple-choice questions.

Task: Answer questions about frog's skin adaptations, and use this information to think about consequences of chytrid fungus for Archey's frogs. Assessment focus: using information to think about management of native endangered species.

Task: Use a Venn diagram to interpret a food web based on the vegetable garden. Assessment focus: using diagrams to identify relationships between organisms; using systems thinking to describe these relationships.

Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.

Students compare fractions, identify which is larger, and explain or show their reasoning.

Students estimate a subtraction problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding one number method, and then do more problems by rounding one number.

Students cut out and attach fractions onto a number line in order from smallest to largest.

Students read an extract from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.

Students show how they estimate in some multiplication problems and come up with sensible estimates.

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

Students solve different forms of subtraction equations.

Students solve different forms of addition equations.

Students use given information to solve a problem using a Venn diagram.

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

Task: Identify from an experiment the preferred living conditions of slaters, and use a fact file to suggest reasons why. Assessment focus: interpreting results of an investigation.

Students read a narrative about a toy glider competition, then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-3-1-1994. Text provided.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials.

Students estimate a division problem, share their methods, discuss the nice numbers and factors method, and then do more problems using nice numbers and factors.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Student select shapes that are similar but not triangles and explain what makes them triangles or not.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .