Making sense of text: processing system resources

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

Students read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

This resource assesses a student's ability to skim quickly and find the answers to eight questions about islands in the Pacific. It is a timed exercise.

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

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.

This resource comprises a report on the control of traffic in the Holland Tunnel in New York presented as a cloze exercise. Students use comprehension skills to complete the gaps with their own vocabulary.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

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

Students read an extract from a drama script and answer questions on props, dialogue, and stage sets. (The text used is reproduced in the the Teacher information pages.) SJ-4-1-2000. Text provided.

Students read two letters about personal viewpoints on graffiti and answer questions about the content and style of the letters.

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

A newspaper article on working from home is the stimulus for this resource. The assessment focus is on looking at both sides of an issue, vocabulary and comprehension.

Students read an article on the marathon. They then answer a range of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

A newspaper story about a runaway weather balloon with a map that tracks its progress is the context for this assessment. Students read it to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.