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The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about an historical event. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

Students read a short text about ladybirds to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students prepare and give a farewell speech. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students use the angle between a tangent and a radius property and the base angles in an isosceles triangle property to find an unknown angle and to explain why line segments are of equal size.

Students use measurements to write algebraic expressions for the perimeter and area of a garden.

Task: Answer questions about data in a table. Assessment focus: pulleys.

For this task students match animals to a description that has characteristics of that animal group. Then students use keywords to identify the larger animal group a number of different animals belong to.

Task: compare features of sea mammals and fish, and describe two features of mammals. Assessment focus: classification of fish and mammals.

Students deliver an impromptu speech on a picture, word, or object provided by the teacher. Speaking strategies are suggested in the resource. Oral Language Assessment Guide B is suitable for this task.

Students use a diagram of a netball court and soccer field to calculate area.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

Students prepare a short farewell speech. This task has an assessment focus on contributing and on considering others. Oral Language Assessment Guide B is suitable for this task.

Students identify the larger group that four animals belong the features that those groups have using images of the animals.

Task: Select the most suitable thermometer to use for different purposes and answer two questions about scale. Assessment focus: making measurements decisions.

In this practical task, students use three different views of a 3-dimensional shape to help them design a net and construct a model of a pyramid.

Students use their knowledge of angle properties to identify missing angles identified on a street map.

Students use Pythagoras' theorem to find the unknown sides of right-angled triangles in three practical problems.

Students prepare and present a speech of introduction for an important person visiting the class. What the speech should cover and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students present and deliver a short talk on a news item that interests them. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Task: use a key to identify a fish, then complete a key to identify shellfish. Assessment focus: classification keys.

Task: Draw a line to match animals to their footprints, and explain why it may be useful to identify animals by their footprints. Assessment focus: using features to name animals.

Task: use a key to identify which major group 4 plants belong to. Assessment focus: using a key to classify plants.

The assessment context is a prepared 'thank you' speech. The time limit is one minute and a content checklist is provided. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Students prepare an oral book review. The assessment focus is on the ability to summarise, read fluently, and promote the book. Oral Language Assessment Guide C is suitable for this task.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph of examination results for Maths and Science, and answer questions on comparison, median, range and proportion.