NAPLAN Year 5 Teaching Resources

Preparing for NAPLAN Year 5 with your class? This collection of worksheets, rubrics, writing stimulus sheets, numeracy assessment tools, and more teaching resources for Year 5 teacher has been developed to help you help your students ready for this year's standardised test.

Along with resources designed to help students with literacy and numeracy skills, this curriculum-aligned collection also includes activities and printables to help your students build their critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills, as well as the ability to apply mathematical concepts to real-world situations.

What Is on the NAPLAN Test for Year 5?

Like the tests your students took two years prior, Year 5 testing is designed to assess students' skills and abilities in a variety of areas. Students will sit three exams including literacy (broken into reading and writing), numeracy, and language conventions.

Literacy

The literacy section of the Year 5 test is designed to measure students' ability to understand and analyse written texts and to communicate their ideas effectively through writing.

This section consists of three parts:

• Reading — In this test, year 5s  are given a series of texts and are required to answer multiple-choice and short-response questions that test their comprehension and analysis of the texts. The texts may include fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and students may be asked to identify the main idea, interpret figurative language and make inferences.
• Writing — In the writing component, students are given a prompt and asked to produce a written response that demonstrates their ability to communicate ideas effectively. This could include writing a narrative or persuasive text. Year 5 students get 42 minutes to complete this section, and they are then assessed on their ability to use appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary. They'll also be assessed on their ability to structure their writing effectively and communicate their ideas clearly.
• Conventions of Language — A third component of the literacy assessment in the Year 5 exam, the conventions of language test assesses students' skills and knowledge in grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary. The goal is to measure students' ability to use the English language effectively and correctly in written communication. These tests are taken after reading and writing (but before numeracy), and they consist of multiple-choice questions all completed on a computer. Your students may encounter some of these challenges as they sit the tests:
  • Identifying and correcting spelling errors in sentences and short passages
  • Identifying and correcting grammatical errors, such as subject-verb agreement, verb tense, and sentence structure
  • Identifying and correcting punctuation errors, such as missing or misplaced commas, apostrophes and quotation marks
  • Identifying and using appropriate vocabulary in context

Numeracy

Just as the name implies, the Year 5 numeracy test is about assessing students' maths skills and knowledge and consists of both multiple-choice and short-response questions.

Students in every year level will be tested in the following strands:

• Numbers and algebra
• Measurement and geometry
• Statistics and probability.