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This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a narrative text about acknowledging older people. SJ-3-3-2006. Text provided.

Students compare different types of quadrilateral shapes and answer questions about which of a pair is a special case of the other one.

Students calculate increases in length, area, and volume, and relate this to the scale factor for an enlargement.

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

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students calculate volumes of composite shapes, showing their working.

Students interpret a table that describes the relationship between turkey size and cooking time, and show how they would extrapolate from it. Students also give a general rule for the relationship in words and as an equation.

Students read from, and mark points on, non-linear scales.

Students calculate the lengths of circles and straight lines on an oval athletics track from its given radius and total length, and show their working.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details and identify the main idea of a narrative about a Cook Island tradition.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details about important information in a recount about a walking school bus, then identify the main idea of this text. SJ-1-1-2006. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a text. SJ-2-2-2006. Text provided.

Students are assessed on the ability to identify important information in order to establish the main idea of a narrative text about being judgemental. Reading age 10-12. SJ-4-3-1994. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea in a text about bridge construction.

Students sort fractions into order from smallest to largest

Students work out the area of a circle and a fraction (Sector) of a circle.

Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details that support them to identify the main idea in a text about an endangered species of New Zealand. Reading age 8.5-9.5. SJ-1-4-2005. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a narrative text. The text describes a person's experience of war and their learnings from it. SJ-2-1-2006. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about conservation projects for endangered species.

This task is about using evidence to find the main idea of a text. Students read a narrative text with a Māori context, find two groups of details, then select the main idea from four choices. Note that the text deals with the hunting and slaughter of pigs, which may be a challenging concept for some of your students. SJ-4-2-2004. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.