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Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
7

Pen Pals Please

The Pen Pals Please task allows students to demonstrate their ability to scan for information. Students will complete this task working stations. The resources required for this task are an advertisement and a question sheet.

This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3

Pet Pals Please

The Pet Pals Please task allows students to demonstrate their ability to follow instructions while reading and reading comprehension skills. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task an advertisement and questions.

This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
7

Poetry Reading

The Poetry Reading task allows students to demonstrate their expressiveness, rhythm, word reading accuracy, speech clarity, and fluent spoke presentation. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a model poem, eight short poems, and eight long poems.

This task is a part of the Oral Responses task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3

Popular Poems

The Popular Poems task allows students to demonstrate their expressiveness, rhythm, word reading accuracy, speech clarity, and fluent spoke presentation. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a model poem, four short poems, four long poems.

This task is a part of the Oral Responses task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Question Time

The Question Time task allows students to demonstrate their ability to develop questions that give opportunities for more elaborate replies and information given. Students will complete this task working in groups. The resource required for this task is a photo of a policeman and police women with a police dog.

This task is a part of the Oral Presentations task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Reading Record

The Reading Record task allows students to demonstrate their accuracy of oral reading. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are the Reading Band Indicator Chart, eighteen texts, and six reading bands.

This task is a part of the Oral Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Reading Record-Fiction

The Reading Record-Fiction  task allows students to demonstrate their accuracy of Oral reading. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Reading Band Indicator Chart, an instruction manual, and a pack of eighteen texts arranged in six reading bands.

This task is a part of the Oral Reading task series from 2000 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Reading Record-Non-Book

The Reading Record-Non-Book  task allows students to demonstrate their accuracy of Oral reading. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Reading Band Indicator Chart, an instruction manual, and a pack of eighteen texts arranged in six reading bands.

This task is a part of the Oral Reading task series from 2000 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Reading Record-Non-Fiction

The Reading Record-Non-Fiction  task allows students to demonstrate their accuracy of Oral reading. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Reading Band Indicator Chart, an instruction manual, and a pack of eighteen texts arranged in six reading bands.

This task is a part of the Oral Reading task series from 2000 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Reading and Speaking

Grade Level
3, 7

Signs

The Signs task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand signs with strong visual cues. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a set of ten photographs arranged and presented in a standard sequence.

This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP.

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