Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.
An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)
Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.
This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.
This resource assesses students dictionary skills through a range of short answer questions. These are given in relation to a provided dictionary page, although another dictionary page could be used.
Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.