Making meaning resources

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

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.

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 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.

Students read a boy's description of himself, identify the places in which capital letters have been omitted for proper nouns, and insert these.

Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.) Reading age 9.5-10.5. SJ-4-3-2004. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea in a text about bridge construction.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.

Students read a personal recount about family relationships in a Pacific context. Assessment focus: the author's construction of two characters and an evaluation of them.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

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

Students make inferences from a poem. SJ-2-4-1993. Text provided.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

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

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.

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