Reading for literary experience resources

A poem about Samoa is read and then retrieval and inference questions are answered about the author's choice of title and her key ideas. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

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

An anecdotal story about fever and the discovery of quinine provides the context for this assessment with its focus on information retrieval and making inferences. The text is provided with this resource.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This task assesses students' ability to analyse a text to identify and justify character traits and points of view, including the author's.