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Students complete a table then describe and write a rule to work out the number of matchsticks needed to make alien shape patterns.

Students match given fractions to images of milk bottles to show how full each bottle is.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

Task: Match animal pests to the harm they cause, and use information about pest control. Assessment focus: animal pests and their control.

Reading text to find information about how scientists work. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.

Students use their knowledge of the fire triangle to identify risk factors for a given scenario, and apply this to their own situation. They use rubrics to rate and improve some of their explanations.

Students identify the most likely combination of throws for a fair coin, and explain their reasons.

Students order litre and millilitre capacities from smallest to largest, compare given capacities and explain how they know whether one is larger/smaller or the same.

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

Task: Place in order six statements about a series of food chain related events in a beech forest, and justify decisions. Assessment focus: interdependence.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks 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.

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.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

Task: Explain how a change in the cockle population has affected one or more organisms in a food web in the short and long term. Assessment focus: Sorting observations and inferences; reading food chains and; using a food web diagram to predict impact of change.

Task: Identify how features/adaptations of a starfish help it survive, and decide whether the amount of evidence from scientists' observations supports or does not support their theory/inference. Assessment focus: using observations as evidence to inform theories.

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

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

Task: Explain the science messages communicated in a cartoon. Assessment focus: decomposition and photosynthesis.

Task: Read information and compare the special features that influence the chances of survival of black robins and fantails. Assessment focus: interpreting text to identify risk factors for survival.