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Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.

Students explore the concept of equality by deciding whether addition sentences are true, false or not proper number sentences.

Task: Identify from an experiment the preferred living conditions of slaters, and use a fact file to suggest reasons why. Assessment focus: interpreting results of an investigation.

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

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Student select shapes that are similar but not triangles and explain what makes them triangles or not.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

Students exploit additive identity property to find missing numbers in addition and subtraction equations.

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

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

Students show that given a fractional part they can show the whole shape or another fractional part.

Task: Students make predictions about evaporation rates of instances where surface areas are a factor, select which variable is being investigated in both examples and explain their answer. Assessment focus: Using knowledge of surface area to make predictions.

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

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a geologist. Junior Journal 21. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a conservation project for an endangered species. Junior Journal 13. Text provided

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of a recount about needing to take action. Junior Journal 29. Text provided.

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

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text. Students are asked to read a text then complete three short tasks. Junior Journal 30. Text not provided.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character. SJ-1-3-1996. Text not provided.

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

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