NAPLAN Writing Samples … learn how to teach it!

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NAPLAN Writing Samples

Every year, Jen McVeity (author and Seven Steps creator) ‘sits’ the NAPLAN writing tests and asks real NAP markers to assess her honestly.

See what she wrote, how she was assessed and more in these NAPLAN Exemplars.

Does she get a perfect score?!

Persuasive NAPLAN Exemplar (2018)

Download Seven Steps founder Jen McVeity’s writing response to the 2018 NAPLAN writing topic ‘New Technology’. The download includes Jen’s review on the writing task, her insight on NAPLAN and her marks scored by a trained NAPLAN marker.

2018 Persuasive Exemplar - Years 7/9

Persuasive NAPLAN Exemplar (2017)

Download Jen’s NAP writing response to the 2017 topic ‘Which is better?’
along with her comments and insights on the writing task. Finally deconstruct
her marks scored by Pip Walsh, an official NAPLAN marker and the Teaching and
Learning Coordinator at Coomera Rivers Secondary School.

2017 Persuasive Exemplar - Years 3/5

Narrative NAPLAN Exemplars (2016)

How does an author tackle NAPLAN? See Jen McVeity’s (author & Seven Steps creator) Narrative writing response to the 2016 prompt.

Narrative Exemplar - Years 3/5

Narrative Exemplar - Years 7/9

Persuasive NAPLAN Exemplars (2015)

Every year Jen sits the NAP writing task to see how she goes as an author – and to put the Seven Steps techniques to the test.

Persuasive Exemplar - Years 3/5

Persuasive Exemplar - Years 7/9

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This page has been updated and moved. Check out all the new (and old) resources via the following links: