Navigating NAPLAN - Lesson Twelve - Share, Reflect, Redraft

Resource Description

Our Navigating NAPLAN resources are designed to help Australian English teachers prepare students for the annual NAPLAN writing assessments.  These resources focus on narrative and persuasive writing, and are aligned with the Australian Curriculum (Years 7 & 9).  

Developed and reviewed by a team of educators including senior Australian English teachers, these resources have been professionally designed to create a high quality learning experience.  

Lesson structure

1. Encourage students to share their completed narratives with another student. 
2. Bring the class together, and ask each pair to share with the class the different approaches they adopted, writing them up on the board as you progress.  
3. Discuss which approaches were most effective, and why.  
4. Ask the students to reflect on:  
   • The concept of narrative writing and their experiences with it;  
   • How they constructed their narratives, and how they reacted to the narratives made by other students.  
   • Which approaches to narrative writing they chose to use, why they chose them, where and how they used them, how well they worked, etc… 
5. Have the students reflect on the NAPLAN minimum standards for Year 7 or Year 9 (located on different slides) and ask them to assess their work against these standards.  
6. Read and discuss the NAPLAN marking criteria, and encourage students to evaluate their narratives against the Narrative writing checklist worksheet.  

This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed January 2020).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.