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This practical task requires students to use straws to build up a linear pattern. Students then predict the number of straws needed for successive patterns and explain their rule.

Students identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.

Students use trigonometry to find missing distances in three everyday problems.

Students use given numbers to work out rules for number machines.

Students use given numbers to work out rules.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

Students read a story about a girl's first night in Samoa. Then they decide whether some statements are true or false and give evidence from the text to back up their responses. There is a link to the text used in the "Using this Resource" tab. SJ-1-1-1996. Text provided.

Students read a newspaper article and answer comprehension and vocabulary questions.

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

A poem about trying to fly is the basis of this resource. Students read the poem then answer questions on its illustrations, rhyme, content and vocabulary. SJ-3-1-1994.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

Task: Read a table to answer questions about when birds are likely to visit a native garden for food. Assessment focus: interpreting a table.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

Students read an article about the development of safety glass to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students identify the number of dots in the <i>n</i>th shape of a series of spatial patterns.

This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

Students view a television advertisement, and answer questions about advertising techniques and the effect on the audience.

Students throw two dice, add the numbers together, construct a tally chart of results, and compare theoretical with observed outcome.

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

Students calculate the cost of hiring a search and rescue helicopter and compare this cost with another helicopter company's charges.

Students identify spelling errors in common homophones and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students read an essay on school uniforms then mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

Task: Match everyday terms about properties with their meanings. Use their understanding about properties of paper and their uses to justify appropriate questions to investigate. Assessment focus: asking questions about paper properties.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

After reading a narrative about a shrewd boy, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysing and evaluating a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age 8-9. SJ-2-4-2000. Text provided.