Excel NAPLAN*-style Tests Year 3

This book is designed for parents who want to help their children and for teachers who wish to prepare their class for the NAPLAN Tests. NAPL AN Tests are sat by Year 3 students Australia-wide. These tests are held in May every year. The tests are in literacy and numeracy. In li teracy there are three tests: Language Conventions – ¶Êspelling, grammar and punctuation: there are around 50 questions in th is testReading – ¶Êcomprehension: there are around 35 qu estions in this testWriting – ¶Êwritten Expression: ther e is one piece of writing in this test In the numeracy tes t mathematics is tested. There are 35 questions in this test. Par ents may also use these books separately from the tests and just as a ge neral way of revising or when tutoring their children. This book is divi ded into sample questions and practice tests. It starts with samples of the literacy (Reading and Language conventions) and numeracy questions. This is then followed by four practice tests for numeracy, four practice tests for reading and four practice tests for language conventions. The re is a sample writing task and four practice writing tasks. * Th is is not an officially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and i s produced by Pascal Press independently of Australian governments.