Making meaning resources

Students listen to a folktale to recall information and make inferences.

Students listen to a folktale then recall information from it by answering multiple-choice questions.

Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

Students match the best font to illustrate a range of different signs.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

Students draw a strange space creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.

Students draw a strange sea creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.

Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.

Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.

A short extract on how chocolate fish are made is the subject of this assessment on listening. It has 5 multiple-choice questions.

A lively narrative about a pig hunt provides the context for this listening comprehension resource. Students recall information and make inferences.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical attributes, students identify which animal is being described.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe personal attributes, students identify which person is being described.

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource looks at a set of cooking instructions for making "Crispy Rounds".

Students read an advertisement and retrieve information and make inferences from it.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

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

Students read an article on milking cows and then find information in it to complete a retrieval chart.

An article about a female wrestler provides the context for this assessment that combines a retrieval chart with questions on alliteration, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)

Students are assessed on their ability to retrieve details that support the main idea of an article about an endangered species.

Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.