Making meaning resources

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

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.

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 personal attributes, students identify which person is being described.

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 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.

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 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 involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

This resource assesses students dictionary skills through a range of short answer questions. These are given in relation to a provided dictionary page, although another dictionary page could be used.

Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details and identify the main idea of a narrative about a Cook Island tradition.

Students read a Junior Journal article about tree cutting. From their comprehension of the story they complete a retrieval chart and explain the figurative language used.

A newspaper article on the Wearable Art show is the context for this resource, with five short written response comprehension questions.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

This resource assesses points of view on the issue of keeping score in sport, with the task being to match statements to the views expressed by four students.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

The context of this task is a story about a power cut. Students identify the changing feelings of the children in the story and record these as a graph over time.

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