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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".

Students read a narrative about a family's encounter with a stray cat. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to evaluate the characters. SJ-1-3-2008. Text provided.

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

Students locate positions on a treasure map using the major compass directions.

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 answer four questions about flight times on a flight schedule.

This task is about describing the behaviour of light rays.

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 resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

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

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.

Task: Using the given pH, classify 10 common substances as acidic, basic, or neutral. Assessment focus: knowledge of the pH scale

Students record the times shown on analogue clock faces in words and as digital times.

Task: Choose images to enhance a science text about an adaptation of kererū, compare the messages of images, and reflect on the role of illustrations in science texts. Assessment focus: using and interpreting images in science texts.

Students select answers to show whether the chance of certain events happening is even or not even.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of a recount about needing to take action. Junior Journal 29. Text provided.

Students decide whether shapes rectangles or not and explain their reasoning.

Task: Answer questions about the fire triangle. Assessment focus: elements necessary for combustion.

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

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.

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.

Students read a narrative about a mother-child relationship. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-1-1-2005. Text provided.

Task: Match definitions to terms about light rays. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.