Making meaning resources

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

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

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

This resource assesses a student's ability to skim quickly and find the answers to eight questions about islands in the Pacific. It is a timed exercise.

Students identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to use evidence in text to make inferences about characters' points of view, and to analyse and synthesise understandings of these characters.

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

Students read an article on dog grooming. They find information to complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-1-1997. Text not provided.

Students read an article on starfish and find factual information to complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-2-1999. Text not provided.

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

This comprehension task assesses student ability to evaluate the ideas and information in a text about an environmental issue. Students are asked to read a text, then respond to four questions. SJ-4-3-2005. Text not provided.

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 listen to instructions on where to go when visiting the zoo, then draw the path on a map. The assessment focus is on listening, recalling, and following instructions.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students use the information in an article to interpret the body language of cats in nine different pictures. This task assesses student ability to bring together written and visual texts to show their comprehension. The text is reproduced in the Teacher information pages. SJ-3-1-1990. Text not provided.

Four conventions for speech bubbles are presented with the students showing their understanding by having matching appropriate text to the bubbles.

A joke about a parrot is the context for this resource that assesses understanding of idioms and the interpretation of humour.

Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.

Students read an article about castles to complete a retrieval chart using information from the text. SJ-1-2-1995. Text provided.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

Students read an article about Tuatara to be able to fill in a chart with specific information. SJ-1-3-1998. Text provided.

Students study a poster about being safe in an earthquake and then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students study a poster about the benefits of exercise and make inferences from written and visual information.

Students look at a water safety poster and answer questions relating to the posters construction.