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

Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.

Students use sticks to continue given patterns, and identify the number of sticks needed to make the new shapes in the pattern.

A lively narrative about a pig hunt provides the context for this listening comprehension resource. Students recall information and make inferences.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Students show how to partition a number of counters and identify the fraction shared.

Students show that given a fractional part they can show the whole shape or another fractional part.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

In Part 1 students identify visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the poem. In Part 2, students create a text to communicate ideas visually. Annotated student work samples of Part 2 are provided.

Students calculate the surface area of the sides and top of a cylinder, showing their working.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students recognise equal and different likelihoods when playing a game of chance.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea of a narrative concerning one child's experience of White Sunday in Sāmoa.

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

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a narrative text about acknowledging older people. SJ-3-3-2006. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a geologist. Junior Journal 21. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about plants. Junior Journal 27, reading age 7.5-8. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of a recount about needing to take action. Junior Journal 29. Text provided.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text. Students are asked to read a text then complete three short tasks. Junior Journal 30. Text not provided.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character. SJ-1-3-1996. Text not provided.