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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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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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric for Poetry
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess student's poetry.
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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 - Language Conventions - Spelling 4, 5 and 6 (Year 5)
A set of 3 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling PowerPoint (Year 5)
A 44 slide PowerPoint presentation displaying NAPLAN style spelling questions.
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Exaggeration and Hyperbole Interactive Activity
Explore hyperbole examples with your students using this digital game perfect for lesson warm-ups or lesson wrap-ups.
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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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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric – Biographical Texts
Use this NAPLAN-style rubric to assess students’ biography writing as you prepare students for Year 5 tests.
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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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Modal Language Interactive Activity
Explore the language of modality with your students using this digital game perfect for your persuasive writing lessons.
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Narrative Writing Prompt Spinners
5 writing wheels which provide stimulus ideas for imaginative writing.
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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric - Procedural Writing
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' procedural writing.
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Exaggeration and Hyperbole Sorting Activity
Explore examples of hyperbole with your students using this set of 24 sorting cards perfect for your collaborative group work.
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NAPLAN Reading Magazine – Year 5 - PowerPoint
5 reading texts with multiple choice questions for NAPLAN Reading Year 5 on PowerPoint.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling Pack (Year 5)
A set of 12 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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General Writing Checklist
A writing checklist for students to use across multiple genres.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling 1, 2 And 3 (Year 5)
A set of 3 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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NAPLAN-Style Assessment Rubric - Historical Recounts
A NAPLAN-style rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' historical recounts.
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Modal Language Sorting Activity
Explore examples of modal language with your students using this set of 24 sorting cards perfect for your persuasive writing unit.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling 10, 11 And 12 (Year 5)
A set of 3 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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Persuasive Device Definitions – Match-Up Worksheet
Have students match the persuasive devices with their definitions using this simple one-page worksheet.
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NAPLAN - Language Conventions - Spelling 7, 8 And 9 (Year 5)
A set of 3 worksheets with spelling words for NAPLAN Language Conventions Year 5.
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5 Historical Recount Stimulus Sheets
Writing stimulus sheets with a historical recount focus.
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