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

Students interpret a scatterplot and identify statements about both details and overall information.

Task: Use understandings about heat energy and insulation to describe how adaptations help Emperor penguins survive in Antarctica. Assessment focus: adaptations for keeping warm in cold conditions.

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

Students are assessed on the ability to identify important information in order to establish the main idea of a narrative text about being judgemental. Reading age 10-12. SJ-4-3-1994. Text provided.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Task: Process and interpret data in a table to identify the best paper to use for a game. Evaluate the reliability of the collected data. Assessment focus: using evidence to answer a question.

Students share out sets of counters into equal-sized groups.

Task: Students apply both their knowledge of the functions of roots and information from a model to explain why care is needed when transplanting trees. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Task: Complete chart to show how birds' feet and beaks are suitably adapted for their particular food and environment. Assessment focus: inference.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

Students decide on the variables that will make an experiment about boiling water a fair test. Assessment focus: Recognising multiple variables.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

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

This resource assesses students' ability to analyse text to identify and find evidence of the author's message and audience.

Students match given fractions to images of milk bottles to show how full each bottle is.

Task: Students play a card game to construct a waterways relationships web. Assessment focus: relationships within a waterways ecosystem.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.

Task: Use written text and pictures to explain how the special features of Old Man's Beard help it survive. Assessment focus: identifying how the special features help this plant to survive.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

Students identify whether algebraic equations are always, sometimes, or never true, and explain their reasoning.