Reading for literary experience resources

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

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

This task is about using evidence to find the main idea of a text. Students read a narrative text with a Māori context, find two groups of details, then select the main idea from four choices. Note that the text deals with the hunting and slaughter of pigs, which may be a challenging concept for some of your students. SJ-4-2-2004. Text provided.

Students read a personal recount about family relationships in a Pacific context. Assessment focus: the author's construction of two characters and an evaluation of them.

Students read a narrative about relationships and wanting to impress others. Assessment focus: the author’s construction of a character and an evaluation of this character.

After reading a poem, students respond to questions which focus on understanding features of language used and their effects.

Advertising provides the context for this resource that has an assessment focus on vocabulary, repetition, tone and comprehension. SJ-4-2-1999. Text provided.

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

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.

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