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Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

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

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

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

Students find the unknown for a range of equations that require number property knowledge and understanding of relational thinking.

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

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

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

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Students identify the shaded fraction of a number of different shapes.

Task: Play a card game to join two sentence fragments to complete a sentence. Assessment focus: a) relationships of elements in a waterway, and b) science vocabulary.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details about important information in a recount about a walking school bus, then identify the main idea of this text. SJ-1-1-2006. Text provided.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important and give reasons for the choice.

Students look closely at a photograph taken on the beach and record their observations. They think and write about the consequences of the things they see.

Students combine their observations with some information provided to complete a story about what might have happened in the photograph.

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