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.
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5 Narrative Writing Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets with a narrative focus.
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Persuasive Text Writing Prompts - Complete Set
A set of 5 persuasive writing prompts, covering a variety of topics.
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Epic Editing Workbook – Year 5 and Year 6
Use this edit a paragraph worksheet pack to get your students practising and refining their proofreading skills.
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Identifying Persuasive Language Worksheets
Explore persuasive language with your students using this set of five persuasive texts on a variety of age-appropriate topics.
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5 Persuasive Writing Prompts
Inspire your students through these relevant persuasive writing prompts.
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Persuasive Techniques Posters
Support students to improve their persuasive writing with these persuasive techniques posters.
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Seven Sensational Story Starters PowerPoint
Inspire creative and catching narrative story starters with this story starters set of teaching slides.
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Emotive Language Cloze Passage Worksheet
Get students using emotive language examples in their persuasive writing with this differentiated cloze passage worksheet.
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Persuasive Writing Checklist Pack
Encourage self-checking with this set of 7 persuasive writing checklists.
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Developing Persuasive Writing Skills PowerPoint (Year 3 and Year 4)
Teach your students about the structure and language features of persuasive texts with these interactive teaching slides.
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Persuasive Devices Teaching Slides
Explore persuasive language devices with your students using this detailed and age-appropriate slideshow perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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List of Persuasive Devices
Download this list of persuasive devices for your students to refer to when writing a persuasive text.
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Using Persuasive Devices Worksheet
Use this persuasive devices worksheet to help your students create persuasive device examples based on a specific topic.
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OREO® Persuasive Writing Posters
Help students remember the structure of persuasive texts with this fun OREO® acronym.
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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric - Narrative Writing
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' narrative writing.
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Narrative Writing Checklist Pack
Use this narrative checklist pack when teaching your students how to edit their narrative writing.
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Modal Language Matching Activity
Have students explore high modality and low modality language with this matching game to use during your persuasive writing unit.
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Persuasive Devices Worksheet Pack
Explore persuasive language techniques with your students using this nine-page worksheet pack perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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Year 5 Editing Passages
Use this set of Year 5 editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.
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NAPLAN-Style Reading Magazine – Year 5
5 reading texts with multiple choice questions for NAPLAN Reading Year 5.
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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric - Persuasive Writing
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' persuasive writing.
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Story Ideas – Character, Setting, and Complication Cards
Help your students choose a topic to write about with this set of 36 character, setting and compilation task cards.
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Rhetorical Questions Sorting Activity
Explore rhetorical question examples with your students using this set of 28 sorting cards perfect for literacy groups
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Persuasive Writing Graphic Organiser Pack
Help students gather their thoughts during persuasive writing with this differentiated set of graphic organisers.
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Persuade Me Persuasive Writing Prompts
Encourage students to write persuasive texts with these engaging task cards or teaching slides.
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Persuasive Device Examples – Cut and Paste Worksheet
Match the persuasive writing techniques with the correct examples using this simple cut-and-paste worksheet perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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Writing Persuasive Texts PowerPoint - Year 5 and Year 6
Explore the structure and language features of persuasive texts with these teaching slides.
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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric - Informative Writing
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' informative writing.
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Analysing Persuasive Devices Worksheets
Get students analysing persuasive techniques and their effects on audiences with this set of three texts with accompanying questions.
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Rhetorical Questions Interactive Activity
Explore rhetorical questions with your students using this digital game perfect for your persuasive writing lessons.
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Persuasive Devices Interactive Activity
Explore persuasive device examples with your students using this digital game perfect for your persuasive writing lessons.
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Daily Maths Word Problems - Year 5
A set of 20 problem solving questions suited to year 5 students.