Grammar resources

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

This is a grammar knowledge resource where students match nine parts of speech and their definitions.

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

Students are required to identify the verbs in a short story about a boy jumping off a diving board.

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

From a selection of grammar terms, students assign the appropriate terms to the parts within two sentences.

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.