English resources

Students study a brochure and identify the visual features that link to its purpose.

This resource assesses the student's ability to interpret the visual elements of a Water Safety Poster. There are questions on font, logos, and language features.

Four conventions for speech bubbles are presented with the students showing their understanding by having matching appropriate text to the bubbles.

This assessment takes the context of the New Zealand flag and has questions that focus on presenting, layout, symbols, and visual cues.

Students interpret five business logos and write a brief statement describing the likely nature of the business.

Students view a television advertisement, and answer questions about advertising techniques and the effect on the audience.

In Part 1 students identify visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the poem. In Part 2, students create a text to communicate ideas visually. Annotated student work samples of Part 2 are provided.

Students identify the visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the written text.

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify and justify evidence used to visualise and make inferences about a character and setting.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

The parts of a book provide the context for this resource with 12 questions on the various components of a book.

A stylised postcard on Christchurch is analysed and interpreted through short questions on the card's visual features.

Students listen to a narrative about an unusual mouse and then respond to 6 multiple-choice questions.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea of a text that recounts one person's experience of a Tryathlon.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea of a narrative concerning one child's experience of White Sunday in Sāmoa.

The context for this oral assessment is an informative speech about a famous person. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to use evidence in a text to work out what a poem could be about as it is disclosed in stages.

Students read an extract from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

This resource has students comparing four advertisements on holiday camps and identifying the meaning of a slogan.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

A tale about a character who resolves a problem creatively provides the context for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to fill in the missing words.

Using a picture as stimulus, students use nouns and verbs to create well-formed sentences.

Students read a short extract on diving and answer five comprehension questions.