NAPLAN Teaching Resources

Teaching year 3 or year 5? Then you know NAPLAN 2024 is on the horizon. If you're looking for curriculum-aligned resources for your NAPLAN preparation, you've landed in the right place!

The Teach Starter teacher team has you covered with reading, writing, conventions of language and numeracy resources all created with your teaching needs in mind.

Explore writing prompts, assessment rubrics, persuasive writing and narrative writing worksheets and activities, resources designed to help students learn to make inferences while reading, and more ways to build literacy skills. You'll also find a host of maths resources that boost students' ability to understand patterns, recognise equivalences, work mathematically and more numeracy skills.

If you're new to teaching a NAPLAN testing year or just want to get prepared, read on for a look at important ACARA testing dates for 2024, plus a look at the history of NAPLAN.

When Is NAPLAN 2024?

There was a major move in NAPLAN testing dates in 2023, with the announcement from ACARA that NAPLAN has permanently moved to March.

The 9-day NAPLAN testing window in 2024 will be Wednesday 13 March to Monday 25 March 2024.

To help you get ready, our teacher team has put together a list of the important dates for year 3 and year 5 teachers to prepare for NAPLAN testing in 2024.

• Beginning of Term 4, 2023 — Practice testing in the NAPLAN training environment open to all schools
• Wednesday 13 March — Monday 25 March 2024 — NAPLAN 2024 test window
• Wednesday 13 March 2024 — Year 3 and Year 5 will commence reading and writing tests on day 1 of the NAPLAN test window
• Thursday 14 March — Year 3 and Year 5 will commence conventions of language and numeracy testing on day 2 of the NAPLAN test window. This day will also be used for writing for Year 5 if there are technical or logistical limitations.
• Thursday 14 March — Monday 18 March 2024 — Year 3 writing catch-up tests will be offered
• Thursday 14 March — Monday 25 March 2024 — Other catch-up tests will be offered for year 3 and year 5
• May 2024 — NAP Opt-in assessment in science literacy for year 6

The transition to online NAPLAN was officially completed in 2022, so most students will take computer-based tests in 2024 with one exception — writing will be completed on paper by year 3 students.