English resources

Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.

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

Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.

Students look at a poster and make interpretations of the relationship between the image and the text.

Students are required to identify arguments for and against keeping animals in zoos and then use these to write a paragraph expressing their point of view about this issue.

A short extract on how chocolate fish are made is the subject of this assessment on listening. It has 5 multiple-choice questions.

A lively narrative about a pig hunt provides the context for this listening comprehension resource. Students recall information and make inferences.

Students read about skinks and geckos and identify information relating to the similarities and differences between them. The information that students identify is rewritten in note form.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical attributes, students identify which animal is being described.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe personal attributes, students identify which person is being described.

Students explain why three sentences are ambiguous and rewrite them to make the meaning clearer.

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource looks at a set of cooking instructions for making "Crispy Rounds".

Students read an advertisement and retrieve information and make inferences from it.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

Students read a poem titled 'The Sea' and explain the meanings of some of the language used.

Students read an article on milking cows and then find information in it to complete a retrieval chart.

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 are assessed on their ability to retrieve details that support the main idea of an article about an endangered species.

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 comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

The assessment focus is on the ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.