Making meaning resources

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

This resource requires students to answer five selected response questions about an index page from a book on travel.

Students listen to instructions about where to go when visiting the mall, then draw the path to be taken on a map and recall specific information. The assessment focus is on listening, recall, and following instructions.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

The assessment focus is on the ability to use information skills.

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

Students read a newspaper article and answer questions about comprehension and vocabulary.

Students read a play to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

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

Students read a story 'The Gift' and answer questions about comprehension, point of view and inference.

Students read a poem to answer questions that focus on the language used. Text provided.

An anecdotal story about fever and the discovery of quinine provides the context for this assessment with its focus on information retrieval and making inferences. The text is provided with this resource.

This resource assesses students' ability to analyse text to identify and find evidence of the author's message and audience.

Students read about a flu immunisation program and answer five questions to show their understanding of the text.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A newspaper story about a runaway weather balloon with a map that tracks its progress is the context for this assessment. Students read it to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students study a range of signs to identify their similarities of meaning, layout, and purpose.

Students read an extract about selecting suitable trees to build a waka then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a poster on sand dunes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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

For this NEMP task students interpret a promotional map of the Coromandel Peninsula.

After reading a poem, students respond to questions which focus on understanding features of language used and their effects.

The text that is read to students is about a household task in Greece. Students listen and then respond to 8 multiple-choice questions. SJ-2-1-1995. Text provided.

Students read a non-fiction contents page to identify where to go for different information.