Creating meaning resources

Students will identify and use nouns, adjectives, and verbs to write a poem that follows the same structure as given in two examples.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to research.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

This oral assessment is designed to be given to a small group. The audience asks questions at the end of the speech. A selection of scoring guides is provided.

Students identify and insert the missing capital letters for proper nouns in a letter.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

This resource assesses students' ability to identify and correct common spelling errors taken from the essential word lists 4, 6, and 7.

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

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.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.

Students are required to identify the verbs in a short story about a boy jumping off a diving board.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

From a selection of grammar terms, students assign the appropriate terms to the parts within two sentences.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of persuasion.

This task is about topic, supporting, and summary sentences in paragraphs of explanation.

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

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

Students first do the science activity Throwing balloons 3 or Throwing balloons 4 where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this resource's writing task where they describe the balloon and what happens when it is thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

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

For this NEMP task students fill in a postcard about a holiday. Students' writing is assessed on postcard conventions, content, and legibility.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

This task assesses students' understanding of the conventions surrounding the use of apostrophes to indicate ownership. Students are required to read a short story and insert apostrophes in the places they are needed.

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

A letter without capitals is the context of this punctuation assessment. Students insert capitals for a number of different purposes.