Unfamiliar Texts

A newspaper article on the Wearable Art show is the context for this resource, with five short written response comprehension questions.

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

Students read a report on a fisheries officer's work and make mainly short written responses. The assessment focus is on comprehension and vocabulary.

Students read a short story about swimming in summer and answer questions about comprehension and inference.

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

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

Students read the poem 'Don't be Wet' and complete two tables to show their understanding of puns.

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

Students read the humorous narrative 'The Diving Competition' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students are asked to read four poems and show their understanding of personification by identifying the ways in which the object in each poem is described to make it seem as if it is alive.

This resource assesses points of view on the issue of keeping score in sport, with the task being to match statements to the views expressed by four students.

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.