Grammar resources

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify the adjectives in a short story about making breakfast.

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

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

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students complete a table giving definitions and examples of proper, common, collective, and abstract nouns.

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 comprises a report on the control of traffic in the Holland Tunnel in New York presented as a cloze exercise. Students use comprehension skills to complete the gaps with their own vocabulary.

The traditional fable of 'Hare and Tortoise' is presented as a cloze article in this resource. Students draw on their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage about a type of beetle to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on insects. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage with 25 blanks on octopuses. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

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

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

Students complete a cloze passage with 20 blanks on polio to create well-formed sentences.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

A tale about a character who resolves a problem creatively provides the context for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to fill in the missing words.

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

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 make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.