Making meaning resources

This resource has an assessment focus on comprehending the language features used in an advertisement.

Students read a short article about Black Holes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students complete a cloze passage with 26 blanks about a boy stuck between some steps. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

This resource requires students to match ten ideas about the different parts to books with the correct term.

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.

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 contents page from a book on windsurfing is used by students to identify where to go to for specific information.

For this task students read the article, 'Chunky Chalks', and identify the ingredients and equipment used to write a set of 10 instructions for making chunky chalk. Students then identify the verb in each instruction. SJ-2-4-2000. Text not provided.

New Zealand's steepest street is the context for this resource. Comprehension questions require students to find information and make inferences. The text is provided with this resource. SJ-4-3-1996. Text provided.

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

Students read acknowledgement text from a journal and answer questions about acknowledgements.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Students read an article about a cockatoo to find factual information. Junior Journal 17. Text not provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text. Students are asked to read a text then complete three short tasks. Junior Journal 30. Text not provided.

Students read an article about shoeing a horse and find information from it to complete a retrieval chart.

From visual stimuli and a series of simple statements that describe physical features, students identify which animal is being described.

Students read an article on parachuting and complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions.

Students are asked to interpret the changing feelings of the main character in the School Journal story 'Grey Hair', and to provide evidence of these feelings by identifying the words and actions of the character. SJ-1-3-1996. Text not provided.

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.

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

Students read a play (retold from a traditional Persian folktale) about the interactions at a market place in old Baghdad. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-4-2-2009. Text not provided.

In this NEMP task students interpret an image of a treasure map.

A brief poem about hedgehogs is read to students who then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource is about types of books and tests the understanding of the differences between fiction - non-fiction, and assesses biography and autobiography.

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.