NAPLAN Writing and the Seven Steps

NAPLAN Writing Samples

• Narrative and persuasive writing exemplars to help you deconstruct great writing in your classroom.
• See how the Seven Steps help structure and enhance a NAPLAN response.
• Gain valuable insights into the planning, writing and editing of a text under NAPLAN test conditions.

Jen’s NAPLAN Super Summary

Check out Jen’s NAPLAN Super Summary – a handy compilation of her most valuable takeaways designed to help your students plan, write and edit a response under test conditions.

Incorporating these insights and actions into your NAPLAN prep is a sure-fire way to help your students approach the writing test with the confidence they need to perform at their best.

Putting It All Together for NAPLAN

Here’s our suggestion on how to help students pull everything they have learnt together to create an entire text, on their own, in 40 minutes. Feel free to speed up or slow down this test practice process with your students based on their ability level.

NAPLAN Insights

This collection of NAPLAN resources includes Jen’s Insight videos from her time sitting NAPLAN, as well as resources to help you track and assess NAPLAN preparation and exemplars to model Seven Steps techniques in a test environment.

Narrative Results Spreadsheet – NAPLAN

This simple spreadsheet is designed to be used alongside the NAPLAN narrative marking guide. Record and compare your students’ pre- and post-test results for each of the NAPLAN criteria.

The spreadsheet breaks down the data and graphs the results to show the overall improvement in your students’ NAPLAN scores after implementation.

You can also measure the improvement in their levels of confidence and enjoyment.

Writing Improvement Agenda – Example

This Writing Improvement Agenda from Allenstown State School shows how the school amalgamated the NAPLAN marking criteria with the Seven Steps in a fortnightly scheme of work across one term. This approach was modelled on a similar plan implemented by Crescent Lagoon State School in 2014.

NAPLAN and the Seven Steps – Narrative

The Seven Steps can dramatically improve students’ results in the NAPLAN writing task. This resource shows which Steps relate to each of the NAPLAN marking criteria for narrative writing.

Use the table to identify which Steps to focus on to improve particular aspects of students’ writing in preparation for NAPLAN. You can also use it to address any areas of weakness identified by their past NAPLAN results.

NAPLAN and the Seven Steps – Persuasive

The Seven Steps can dramatically improve students’ results in the NAPLAN writing task. This resource shows which Steps relate to each of the NAPLAN marking criteria for persuasive writing.

Use the table to identify which Steps to focus on to improve particular aspects of students’ writing in preparation for NAPLAN. You can also use it to address any areas of weakness identified by their past NAPLAN results.