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

Students read two letters about personal viewpoints on graffiti and answer questions about the content and style of the letters.

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.

Task: Demonstrate understanding of the pupil reflex of the eye, and apply this to answering questions about sunglasses safety. Extension questions probe understanding of who decides on and applies safety standards. Assessment focus: effect of UV light on the eyes and how it can be mediated by simple sunglasses technology.

Students use their knowledge of the fire triangle to identify risk factors for a given scenario, and apply this to their own situation. They use rubrics to rate and improve some of their explanations.

Task: Read information and compare the special features that influence the chances of survival of black robins and fantails. Assessment focus: interpreting text to identify risk factors for survival.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem. It assesses a student's ability to use evidence to predict what it could be describing. SJ-2-4-1994. Text provided.

Students are required to identify whether a series of statements about the School Journal story 'Personal Mail' are true or false, and to support their opinion with evidence from the text. This task assesses students' retrieval and inferential comprehension skills. SJ-3-1-1991. Text provided.

The assessment focus is on the ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

This task requires students to show how to calculate multiplication problems with multi-digit numbers.

Task: Describe on a chart how a duck's features help it to survive, then infer what might happen if these features were changed in some way. Assessment focus: how adaptations aid survival.

Students read from, and mark points on, non-linear scales.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students decide if a statement is correct and then give a reason for their answer. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain a view.

Students identify the repeating part of patterns.

Students solve subtraction word problems.

Students identify whether two shapes have been partitioned evenly or not, and show how to correctly partition the shapes.

Students continue three repeating patterns.

Students work out the number of covered counters on a 10 x 10 array.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

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

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