naplan tutor is a tutoring program designed to empower parents and students to become academically enabled with writing skills. The tutorials teach you the how of writing so you can truly learn how to write. knowing how to write is essential for any level of success in all written tests and assessments. The naplan tutorials are a collection of explicit, yet simple notes that explain each of the 10 writing criteria used to mark naplan writing tests, and how to achieve these in your own writing. These criteria assess a writers ability to effectively and accurately use language conventions or literary devices.

The ability to fuse these conventions of language are needed to craft any piece of good writing and to meet any writing task with a decent level of success. The tutorials are also written at a level appropriate for secondary and the more independent year 5 students to work alone on. The membership also provides you with access to on line resources like word banks, examples of correct writing for each of the tutorials.

Please understand, however, that this site is not an interactive website where children type in responses or answer a quiz. It is a visual and text resource for parents and children who can work well from written instruction and information. This type of tuition can tweak your child rsquo s understanding of what has already been taught at schools can shift an average result to something much higher. Most importantly, naplan tutorials can indirectly help those students who struggle with reading, writing and spelling to also improve. The tutorials provide a unique delivery of how to do things or how to perceive information at a more sophisticated level.

For example, the spelling tutorials are less about lists and more about how to shift from knowing how to spell a word for a day or week, then forgetting how to spell it again. We explain how to do this because of our understandings of how to move information from short term memory into long term memory. The tutorial notes are written for parents so they can work with their children to help explain each of these conventions, how they work, common errors, how to improve these and most importantly, how to utilise these skills and produce writing that is creative, yet technically correct. She is an amazing educator who will be creating a series of short videos for each tutorial module. She is considered somewhat of an authority in the persuasive writing modality that she has adapted for us to meet future naplan and national curriculum writing requirements. That is why memberships are offered as lifetime and lifetime plus. naplan tutor is a long term internet resource.

It was commenced to cater for the change in the writing genre from narrative to persuasive. In australia, students need to be able to meet national standards in writing as part of their overall literacy standards for academic writing foundation/kindergarten to year 12 f 12 and beyond within the australian national curriculum. Equally, well executed writing is necessary for all tertiary writing tasks university and tafe.

All content included is cutting edge, linked directly to the australian curriculum approved monday 13th december, 2010 acara and the 2011 national assessment program literacy and numeracy naplan 2011 ndash persuasive writing marking guide. Highly experienced teachers who have specialised training and teaching experience in grammar amp writing have designed the tutorial resource available to naplan tutor members. in the naplan 2011 writing test, there has been a genre change. naplan writing test is the hardest test of all.. The one paper tests every child from yr 3 to yr 9. students are now required to create a persuasive writing ! text. Past naplan test papers do not show any examples for the 2011 writing test genre.. a fact sheet for naplan 2011 to give you a valuable insight into the rationale and expectations behind the persuasive writing test. The national assessment program – literacy and numeracy naplan is an annual assessment for students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Naplan tests the sorts of skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life, such as reading, writing, spelling and numeracy. The assessments are undertaken nationwide, every year, in the second full week in may. Naplan is made up of tests in the four areas or ‘domains’ of: reading writing language conventions spelling, grammar and punctuation numeracy. Naplan tests skills in literacy and numeracy that are developed over time through the school curriculum.

You can find an easy to understand infographic that gives useful information on the naplan tests and their benefits here 810kb. To get a sense of the ‘look and feel’ of the tests and to understand what types of questions are asked, a full set of example naplan tests is available. For more information about the move to deliver naplan in a computer based environment, go to naplan online.

Click on the links above to find and download naplan 2008, 2009 and 2010 tests for year 3, year 5, year 7 and year 9 in literacy and numeracy. please note: naplan 2011 test papers will be made available on the acara website shortly. for further details about permissions to use post examination naplan test papers and acknowledgements, see permitted use, copyright requirements and acknowledgements for naplan tests. Please refer to the naplan website at acara and all naplan test administration authorities have agreed that, as in 2015, there will be two writing prompts: one prompt for years 3 and 5 and a different prompt for years 7 and 9. This decision has been taken to ensure continued maximum engagement and fairness for students nationally. The genre for the npalan 2016 writing test will be either narrative or persuasive, and it will be the same genre for all year levels.

Also, as in 2015, the genre for the writing test will not be disclosed pripr to the test day and students will not be able to choose the genre in which they write their response. As in 2015, victorian schools will be able to access scanned images of their students’ naplan writing test responses later in the year. The vcaa believes this will assist schools with interpretation of naplan writing results and inform classroom teaching and learning programs. It is planned that access to the images will coincide with the release of naplan 2016 reports. Please refer to the following documents regarding the use of naplan writing test responses.