Writing resources

This punctuation resource has a focus on colons and semi-colons. Students insert colons into sentences and demonstrate their knowledge of differences between colons and semi-colons.

Students read a story about rabbits and mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students complete a table giving definitions and examples of proper, common, collective, and abstract nouns.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles, by asking them to read six book titles and put capital letters in the places they are needed.

Students read an essay on school uniforms then mark where the paragraph breaks should occur. The assessment focus is on organisation.

Students add commas to enclose words or phrases within sentences to show where extra information has been added.

This transactional writing resource requires students to express their views about organ donation.

Students write an argument either for or against daily physical education in schools. Support materials and links to exemplars for writing an argument are given under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students choose the most appropriate topic sentence for a set of supporting sentences.

This is a grammar knowledge resource where students match nine parts of speech and their definitions.

Students identify the topic sentence, supporting sentences and summary sentence in a given paragraph. They then write their own paragraph, working to include these elements.

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

Students will identify and use nouns, adjectives, and verbs to write a poem that follows the same structure as given in two examples.

Students read and then show a conversation using characters and speech bubbles.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to research.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

For this NEMP task students fill in a postcard about a holiday. Students' writing is assessed on postcard conventions, content, and legibility.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.