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Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

Task: Decide what information can or cannot be inferred from food chain diagrams. Assessment focus: reading food chains

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students order fractions from smallest to greatest, and work out fractions of an amount.

In this practical task students order proper fractions on a number line between 0 and 1.

Students show that they can picture the whole shape when given a fractional part.

Students place decimal numbers in the correct order and position on a number line.

Students interpret and answer questions from a bus timetable including some time calculations.

Task: Order fruit according to size and number of seeds, make a generalisation about the pattern and use this to predict whether a fig has small or large seeds. Assessment focus: pattern seeking.

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

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

The native bird the kakapo is the subject of this listening comprehension assessment. SJ-2-3-1992. Text not provided.

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to use evidence from the poem to work out what it could be describing. SJ-4-1-2002. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to use evidence from the poem to work out what it could be describing. SJ-3-1-2004. Text provided.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students sort different shapes into tessellating and not tessellating categories and explain their reasoning.

This task assesses students' ability to analyse a text to identify and justify character traits and points of view, including the author's.

Task: Students read a pH scale to determine how it shows the increasing strength of an acid and a base solution and decide from different pH products what the effect would be on an acidic soil. Assessment focus: interpreting a pH scale.

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.

Task: Students give oral explanations about how the features of a weta or a mallard duck help it survive in its environment. Peer assessment sheets are included. Assessment focus: structure and function.

This resource is about students continuing linear or quadratic spatial patterns, and giving rules for them.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.

Students measure images of objects on a centimetre ruler.