NAPLAN READING TEST

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NAPLAN READING TEST

• Preparation and Practice

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Format of the Test

• Two components to the test The Stimulus
  Material READING MAGAZINE and the Actual
  READING TEST
• Allowed Time for Reading Test 65 minutes
• Test Conditions as outlined on front of test
  booklet.
• Test booklet completion procedures name to be
  printed by student in space provided

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Looking at the Reading Magazine

• Contains a variety of articles
• The articles vary in terms of the genre in which
  they are written ( a story, letters, scientific
  report, poem, web postings)
• Stimulus material within the article varies may
  be all text (words) or may be text with
  photographs, pictures, maps, graphs, tables
• Different writing conventions may be used e.g.
  use of footnotes, use of italics

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How the Reading Magazine and Reading Test Booklet
Link

• The Reading Magazine contains the information to
  which the questions in the test booklet relate.
• It is important to identify to which articles in
  the Reading Magazine specific questions in the
  test booklet relate.
• For example, Questions 1-7 on the Test Booklet
  relate to the Article on Page 3 of the Reading
  Magazine.

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Using the Reading Magazine and Test Booklet
Questions Together

• Start with the Test Booklet. Look at the First
  set of Questions 1-5.
• You are instructed to read Dale Richards on Page
  3 of Reading Magazine
• Read article note features use of standard
  text a biography with three pictures

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Answering the Questions

• After reading the text look at the questions in
  the test booklet
• Apply the strategies of answering a multiple
  choice question refer back to the article
• Questions 1 2 locating information in the
  text
• Question 3 what the text is about
• Question 4 locate information
• Question 5 identify purpose of the text

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Questions 6-11

• To answer these question you need to refer to
  Page 4 of the reading magazine
• The information is in the form of a narrative.
• The use of italics the air was baked thin above
  the shed in Question 1 is to identify
  particular text in the story
• In question 7 you must write an answer The
  narrator thought the goanna was a dinosaur
  because of .

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Lacy continued

• In question 8 the term Narrator is used you
  must answer from their perspective ie. Put
  yourself in their place
• Question 9 requires you to read for understanding
• Question 10 asks you to interpret the use of the
  phrase eye-eye
• Question 11 requires you to identify the intended
  character in the sentence (who is the you?)

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Page 5 Stimulus Material

• Not available
• Which questions refer to this material
• Even without stimulus material do you think you
  could work out answer to Q 15? How and Why?

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Page 6 Stimulus Material

• Which test paper questions refer directly to this
  material
• What format / genre is the material present in?
  How can you determine this?
• Who is the author of the Yes case?
• Who is presenting the No case?
• Q21. terms anxious, boastful, nostalgic and
  enthusatic
• Skills at identifying core of each argument,
  common features and implications of one onto the
  other

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Page 7 Stimulus Material Endemism

• What style of writing? What are the
  characteristics of this writing style What
  other non-text material is presented?
• Which test questions relate to this article?
• Three of the questions are answered by directly
  interpreting information from the diagrams. Which
  ones?

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Reading Magazine Page 8

• Identify writing style
• Read Article
• Discuss the use of So to begin the first
  sentence of paragraph 2.
• Figurative language what is it and how is it
  identified

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Reading Magazine Page 5 Pet Dogs What do you
think?

• Format is in the form of two letters
• Which questions in the text book refer to this
  article?
• Who wrote the letters? how can you tell
• Need to understand term suggests in Q 14
• Need to understand what paragraphs are for Q 16

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Reading Magazine Page 7

• Which questions on the Reading Test refer to
  these questions?
• Q 23 direct information from text
• Q 24 direct information from text
• Q 25 requires interpretation of the work
  guardians
• Q 26 words used with special meaning in the
  text Reading
• Q 27 identify PURPOSE of Text why was it
  written
• Q 28 Identify attitude conveyed in text examine
  vocabulary (words) used.

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Reading Magazine Page 8 The Wasp

• To which questions in the Reading test does this
  material provide information?
• Question 29 purpose of poem
• Verse structure first verse end in a ?
• Q 31 Air itself in treason Turns a sudden solid
  
• Q 32 Compare beginning of poem and end

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Wasp continued

• Q 33 need to identify the third verse
• Q 34 Interpret Air itself in treason
• Q 35 Requires you to infer the poets point of
  view

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The Double Life of a Slippery Axolotl

• Which questions refer to this article?
• Format of stimulus material is a scientific
  article
• Identifying figurative language