English resources

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

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

Students attempt to persuade the adults in their families that they should be able to have a dog. They construct an argument by writing replies to the adults' statements.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing and use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

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

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

Students create character vignettes with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

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

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists of commonly misspelt words.

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

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.

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage with 27 blanks on the release of a killer whale. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.