Creating meaning resources

Students prepare and give a 'Thank you' speech. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

Students prepare and give a farewell speech. Points to be covered by students and a scoring guide for teachers are included.

The assessment context is a prepared speech of introduction. The time limit is 1 minute and a content checklist is provided. Assessment guides B and C are suitable for this task.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

Students identify qualities of structure, voice, body language, and rapport for a speech.

Students read statements from a debate then provide nine short written answers to demonstrate their understanding of common debating techniques.

The language of debating is assessed as students provide explanations of emotional argument, limited example, empathy, empty argument, rebuttal, refutation, and irrelevant conclusion.

For this NEMP task students look at an humorous image of Santa and complete a thought bubble.

This punctuation resource is on the use of brackets. Students explain when brackets are used, then insert them into four sentences.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a bookshop requesting information about a book.

Students express interest in a job by writing a letter and a message to leave on an answer phone.

Students write arguments for and against school rules.

Students identify different speech techniques in a range of extracts of motivational talking from a coach.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

The focus of this resource is selecting the appropriate punctuation to end sentences. The resource ends with a shared activity where students write some sentences about themselves, share them with a partner, and give each other feedback on their punctuation.

In this resource students select the correct word from a range of homophones from the essential word lists.

Students design an advertisement to sell a bike.

For this NEMP task students write a letter to a company requesting some information.

Students write both open and closed questions about the importance of smartphones to students their age.

For this NEMP task students are required to fill out a form to join a Fun Club.

Students identify common spelling errors and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

For this NEMP task students fill out an application form for an after school job.

Students create a vignette with a focus on writing that is brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

This NEMP task requires students to write a story book for a young person using a sequence of pictures.