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Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on a sailing ship mutiny. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students find different ways to divide squares into halves and quarters.

Students demonstrate their understanding of the effect of division and multiplication involving fractions.

For this NEMP task students read a poem about 'Me' and then write a poem about their own 'special self'.

Students work out what fractions of shapes have been shaded.

This task assesses whether students know the most suitable reference resource to go to for particular information.

Students show how to partition shapes into a given number of equal parts and identify the fraction of each part.

Task: Use information about differences between moths and butterflies to decide which category examples belong to, and identify what evidence was used. Assessment focus: observation, using evidence.

Students read a short extract on diving and answer five comprehension questions.

A school journal article on living in a Japanese home is the context for this assessment that focuses on locating information and general comprehension. SJ-1-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

Students complete a cloze passage with 28 blanks about a rugby game. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included. SJ-1-2-1998. Text provided.

Students read a short article about Black Holes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a play (retold from a traditional Persian folktale) about the interactions at a market place in old Baghdad. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-4-2-2009. Text not provided.

A brief poem about hedgehogs is read to students who then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students use a protractor to find given angles and draw angles of given degrees.

A newspaper article on working from home is the stimulus for this resource. The assessment focus is on looking at both sides of an issue, vocabulary and comprehension.

Students read an article on kiwi and answer multiple choice questions that focus on inference and information retrieval.

This practical task requires students to record data, which is read out to them, on a back-to-back stem-and-leaf graph. The leaves are then ordered into a second graph and the graph interpreted.

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

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

In this activity students progressively build up evidence for and against a new idea in pest control: using bumblebees to transmit a fungicide. Students practise argumentation skills and reflect on how they formulate opinions on environmental issues.