Text features resources

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

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.

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

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.

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

Students view an illustration and read a poem entitled 'The Dinosaur Climber's Kit' and then answer retrieval and inferential questions. An awareness of rhyme is explored. SJ-2-3-1994. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

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.

This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

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

Students read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

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