Comprehension resources

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.

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.

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

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

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

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

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.

Students read a poem and make links between its written and visual information. SJ-2-4-1993.

Students use evidence in a text to make inferences about a character's feelings. They analyse these within scaffolding activities, synthesising their thinking to suggest the author's message.

Students are required to read an article, answer questions and complete a retrieval chart.

Students read excerpts from a speech and identify six features of the language and describe their intended effect on an audience.

Students read the poem 'Don't be Wet' and complete two tables to show their understanding of puns. SJ-3-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.