Students complete a cloze passage with 27 blanks on the release of a killer whale. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.
Students read an advertisement for a website. Comprehension questions then require the student to explore the writers' use of metaphor and superlatives.
This resource has the parts of an article (on gold) numbered and assesses student knowledge about where to locate different sorts of information in the article.
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 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.
From a school newspaper interview about a school production, students complete a retrieval chart for a press release. The assessment focus is on identifying key information.
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.