NAPLAN LITERACY SKILLS Mastering Writing Skills Year 5

This workbook provides extensive guided practice with a complete range of writing tasks, and will help prepare students for the reading and writing tasks on the NAPLAN Literacy tests. Students will write in response to passages, as well as complete persuasive, informative, and narrative writing tasks. Students will develop all the writing skills described in the Australian Curriculum.

Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice
- Ten convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development
- Each practice set contains two reading comprehension tasks where students write in response to texts
- Each practice set contains two writing tasks where students write a short story, personal narrative, opinion piece, or essay
- Guided writing tasks include hints, planning activities, and review checklists to guide students and encourage strong skill development
- Each set includes additional core skills exercises that focus on key writing skills

Full Coverage of the Australian Curriculum
- Covers all the types of writing in the Australian Curriculum, including persuasive, informative, and narrative writing
- Includes exercises for additional writing skills, including completing research projects and gathering information from sources
- Provides extensive practice writing in response to texts

Preparation for the NAPLAN Literacy Tests
- Helps students gain the skills and experience needed for the NAPLAN Writing tests
- Prepares students for persuasive and narrative writing tasks
- Tips, planning, and review activities teach the key features expected of student writing
- Improves student performance on the NAPLAN Reading tests
- Provides extensive experience with constructed-response questions
- Students learn to understand, analyse, and respond to texts
- Strong understanding gained ensures students perform well on all types of reading comprehension questions

Key Benefits of this Workbook
- Flexible format allows practice sets to be completed to suit any schedule
- Develops the writing skills that are needed to perform well on the NAPLAN tests
- More rigorous tasks encourage deeper understanding and more advanced thinking
- Format allows for review after each set to provide feedback and promote improvement