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

Subject
Writing

Grade Level
3, 7

Windmills

The Windmills task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write instructions. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a picture, paper cutouts, and a glue stick.

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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