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Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

Students read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students create simple then compound sentences to go with a photo, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Task: Answer questions about a key for metals: Assessment focus: recognising the purpose of a specific key.

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

Students work out how much time some bus trips take.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.

Students give the number of vertices, straight lines, and curved lines and complete sentences to describe different 3-dimensional shapes.

Students interpret a bar chart that shows the stopping distance of cars and are asked which car is safe and why.

Students compare the area of two different triangles.

Students interpret a scatterplot and identify statements about both details and overall information.

Students compare the overall distribution of two dot plots and describe their reasons.

Students explain why a range of students' answers to a maths problem are incorrect.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.

Task: Use a diagram and fact file to answer questions about sharks' fins. Assessment focus: adaptations of sharks to facilitate movement in water.

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

Students are provided with a map that has numbers on it representing various ash fall depths from a volcanic eruption. Students draw lines to link the similar numbers and answer questions about these. They also explain three major problems an ash fall could cause.

Students complete a cloze passage with 26 blanks about a boy stuck between some steps. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students are required to identify and interpret the metaphors in two short poems.

Students discuss making an interval estimate in multiplication problems (i.e., getting a lower and an upper limit for the actual answer using the front-end and rounding-up estimation methods). They then use this method on two problems.

Students read scales to measure images of objects to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.