Using language, symbols, and texts resources

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

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

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students show how to solve some addition problems.

For this NEMP task students read a poem about 'Me' and then write a poem about their own 'special self'.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

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

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

Students read a poem then retrieve information to answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-1-1999. Text not provided.

Students are assessed on knowing how to use a contents page. SJ-1-1-1999. Text provided.

Students read the poem 'Hide-and-go-seek' to make inferences about the game. SJ-3-2-1996. Text provided.

For this NEMP task students look at a picture of a bicycle and write an advertisement to sell the bike in a newspaper column.

Students read a narrative about a mother-child relationship. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-1-1-2005. Text provided.

This resource provides information on students’ ability to write a string of adjectives in the correct order.

Students identify common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists, and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students find missing numbers to complete addition, subtraction and multiplication number patterns.

Students complete a cloze passage with 26 blanks about a boy stuck between some steps. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

In this resource, students write instructions to match each photograph about making a pūrerehua. SJ-1-1-2001. Text provided.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

This task assesses students' ability to discriminate between the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks by asking them to read a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence.

Students complete a cloze passage about koalas using their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students use an index page to identify the pages they should go to, in order to find specific information.

Students show how to solve some subtraction problems.

Students read a poem and its illustrations to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students plan how to do a statistical investigation about a question that has been posed, and think about how they will collect their data.