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Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

Students read an extract about gathering water in Sāmoa to find information to fill in a chart. SJ-3-3-1999. Text provided.

For this practical task students construct a composite strip graph of the nutrient groups found in three different food products.

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

Students draw a strange space creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.

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

Students consider three different sampling methods for a survey and decide if each is a fair sample, explaining their answer.

Students estimate and explain how they estimated their answer for two number problems: one involving multiplication; and the other division.

Students identify towns and cities on a map using compass points.

Students need to interpret data about travel time to school and common after-school activities and identify which statement is true from a list of given statements.

Students are asked to study a bar graph of ways to travel to school and write down five things that are wrong with the way the graph is set up.

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

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

Students construct three different sized parachutes from plastic bags. They then carry out a fair test to see which sized parachute is the most effective. Students answer questions about fair tests, collect and record their results, and make a conclusion.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This task is about finding the solutions for linear equations.

This resource assesses students' ability to select appropriate key words, from a given list, for the purpose of finding information that can be used to answer a given question. Students' ability to generate key words is also assessed.

Students label six diagrams as an element, compound, or mixture.

Students read an advertisement and retrieve information and make inferences from it.

Students select which person has correctly applied the laws of indices to some problems, and explain their choice.

Students work out the area of different shapes.

Task: Students differentiate between simple observations and inferences, and between observations that require measurement and those that do not. Assessment focus: observing scientifically.

Students calculate fractions of a total number of cars. They also calculate the total number of cars, given an identified fraction of this total.