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For this NEMP task students look at a picture of a bicycle and write an advertisement to sell the bike in a newspaper column.

This is a resource in which the students read a short story 'The Reading Room' and answer ten short written questions. SJ-3-1-1998. Text provided.

Students read a poem about air to answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Students read a poem to explore the language it uses. SJ-4-3-1995. Text provided.

Advertising provides the context for this resource that has an assessment focus on vocabulary, repetition, tone and comprehension. SJ-4-2-1999. Text provided.

This resource has an assessment focus on comprehension. Students study the poem 'Learning to Read' and respond to four short written response style questions. SJ-3-3-1989. Text provided.

Students read a narrative and make inferences about the characters' feelings based on evidence in the text. Text is provided with this resource. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Task: Students identify which different events threaten our native birds or have done so in the past. Assessment focus: identification of the specific impacts of human actions.

Students identify prime numbers from a series of group sizes and list all the factors of 36.

Task: identify two features that enable a sea lion to live in water. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Using a page from a dictionary, this resource assesses students' dictionary skills through a series of short answer and selected response questions.

Students read a visual and written text about native plants and animals to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

From a selection of grammar terms, students assign the appropriate terms to the parts within two sentences.

Students decide if each of three sentences about solids, liquids, and gases is true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Students read the description of a number of surveys and explain why the sample is biased.

A contents page from a book on windsurfing is used by students to identify where to go to for specific information.

Students use a circuit diagram to answer questions about how removing bulbs affects the other bulbs in the circuit. Assessment focus: Electrical circuits

Students read acknowledgement text from a journal and answer questions about acknowledgements.

This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.

Students are given an outline of a fair test. They are asked to identify the aim, variables to be controlled, how to judge the results, and an aspect of replication.

Students read statements based on a bar graph and show understanding by marking whether each statement is correct.

Students recommend which store offers the cheapest product based on calculations of percentage increase or decrease, and fully justify their answers.

This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles, by asking them to read six book titles and put capital letters in the places they are needed.

The context is a plea for a 'good cause' or an emotional statement of opinion on a controversial issue. Some topics are provided. The focus is on passion and forceful speaking. Assessment guides A, B and C are suitable for this task.