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Spelling List The Spelling List task allows students to demonstrate their ability to spell correctly. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are four individual answer sheets. This task is a part of the Writing Conventions task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Spots The Spots task allows students to demonstrate their ability to invent appropriate dialogue to fit a picture. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task is a picture and an answer book. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Story Edit The Story Edit task allows students to demonstrate their ability to edit grammar and spelling. Students will complete this task working in stations. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Writing Conventions task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Te Potiki The Te Potiki task allows students to demonstrate their ability to tell a story to go with pictures. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are four booklet pages, pictures, and a stapler. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Text Messages The Text Messages task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand and use abbreviations effectively. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Thank You Letter The Thank You Letter task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a formal thank you letter. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a letter and an envelope. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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The Conversation The Conversation task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a conversation between two people in a photograph. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task photos, blue pens, and red pens. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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The Plum Tree The Plum Tree task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a story ending. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task is a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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The Wishing Ring The The Wishing Ring task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write an ending to a story. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an audio recording. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Torch The Torch task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write instructions. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an assembled flashlight without batteries and two batteries. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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