Making meaning resources

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource requires students to answer questions about an index page.

Students read fifteen statements and identify the six statements of opinion.

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

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

Students match ten topics or subjects to the correct Dewey Decimal call number.

Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students match eight descriptions of non-fiction books to the correct type of reference book.

Students describe what a thesaurus is, and label the features of a thesaurus.

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

Students complete a cloze passage with 25 blanks on octopuses. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on insects. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

The traditional fable of 'Hare and Tortoise' is presented as a cloze article in this resource. Students draw on their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on a sailing ship mutiny. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage about a type of beetle to create well-formed sentences.

This resource comprises a report on the control of traffic in the Holland Tunnel in New York presented as a cloze exercise. Students use comprehension skills to complete the gaps with their own vocabulary.

A poem is disclosed in stages to students. The task assesses their ability to make inferences using evidence from text and prior knowledge to work out what it could be describing.

This task assesses whether students know the most suitable reference resource to go to for particular information.

Students look at a cartoon and make interpretations in looking at visual features.

Students look at a cartoon and extrapolate meaning through looking at visual features.

Students read a visual presentation about manufacturing processes and identify information in the text and why certain visual techniques are used.

Students study a brochure and identify the visual features that link to its purpose.

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