Preparing your child for their NAPLAN assessments can be a stressful time for both parents and students, but Kinetic Education's experienced tutors are here to help. We provide targeted support to develop your child's skills and confidence in all areas assessed by NAPLAN. We work with students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9 to build a strong foundation in literacy and numeracy, helping them prepare for their upcoming assessments. Our tutors focus on developing the core competencies that NAPLAN evaluates, ensuring students understand the concepts and can apply them confidently on test day. Kinetic Education's goal is to equip children with the knowledge they need to approach their tests with confidence!
NAPLAN (the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy) is a national assessment used to measure students' progress and achievement in core educational areas. NAPLAN results provide parents with insights into their child's academic progress, showing how they're performing in relation to national standards.
What's in the NAPLAN tests?
NAPLAN Reading Tests
NAPLAN reading assessments measure literacy skills that students develop throughout their time at school. These skills are fundamental not just for English, but for learning across all subjects in the Australian Curriculum.
During the reading assessment, students will read various types of texts and answer questions that demonstrate their understanding. The questions check how well students can comprehend both the content and the language features of these texts.
Since moving online, NAPLAN now includes both traditional multiple-choice questions and interactive elements like drag-and-drop features, helping students demonstrate their reading comprehension skills in a digital environment.
Visit the NAP public demonstration site to explore sample questions and test features.
While the public demo site gives you a feel for the test format, Kinetic Education provides comprehensive reading support with expert tutors, targeted practice, and proven strategies to build the deep comprehension skills your child needs for NAPLAN success.
NAPLAN Writing Tests
The NAPLAN writing assessment tests students’ ability to write either a narrative or persuasive text, reflecting the writing skills taught in the Australian Curriculum. On test day, all students in the same year level receive the same type of writing task, though they may have different writing prompts or topics to respond to.
These writing prompts are designed to suit the capabilities of students from Years 3 to 9, giving them interesting ideas to write about. Students find out whether they'll be writing a narrative or persuasive text on the day of their assessment.
Visit the NAP public demonstration site to see example writing prompts and marking criteria.
While practice prompts are helpful, Kinetic Education goes further with personalised writing guidance, structured feedback from experienced tutors, and targeted strategies for both narrative and persuasive writing success.
NAPLAN Conventions of Language Tests
The NAPLAN conventions of language tests assess how well students understand and use standard Australian English, focusing on three key areas:
- Spelling
- Grammar
- Punctuation
These fundamental language skills are essential for clear communication and support both reading and writing development. As students progress through school, they build these skills across all subjects, though they're primarily developed in English lessons.
The online test includes various question types, such as multiple-choice and drag-and-drop activities, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding of language in different ways.
Visit the NAP public demonstration site to try sample language convention questions.
While the demo site shows you the test format, Kinetic Education provides comprehensive language support with interactive activities, immediate feedback, and tutor support to help your child master grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills for lasting success.
NAPLAN Numeracy Tests
NAPLAN numeracy tests assess students' mathematical understanding and skills. Following the Australian Curriculum, the assessment covers number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. Students show their mathematical understanding through various question types in the online test, including multiple-choice and interactive drag-and-drop questions. These questions assess their ability to understand mathematical concepts, solve problems, and apply their reasoning skills.
Visit the NAP public demonstration site to explore sample numeracy questions and interactive features.
While practice questions give you test familiarity, Kinetic Education delivers comprehensive mathematics support with step-by-step tutorials, worked examples, and tutor support to build your child's problem-solving skills and mathematical confidence.
With NAPLAN now fully online, our digital learning environment perfectly complements the assessment format, giving students a natural advantage in test preparation. We begin with an initial assessment to understand each student's current knowledge level, allowing us to create targeted weekly lesson plans that adapt to their learning progression.
Our comprehensive, curriculum-aligned lessons help students develop both digital independence and the core skills assessed in NAPLAN. Through regular engagement with our interactive content, students strengthen their understanding of key concepts while building the digital literacy needed for assessment success.
How we help:
With NAPLAN now fully online, our digital learning environment perfectly complements the assessment format, giving students a natural advantage in test preparation. We begin with an initial assessment to understand each student's current knowledge level, allowing us to create targeted weekly lesson plans that adapt to their learning progression.
Our comprehensive, curriculum-aligned lessons help students develop both digital independence and the core skills assessed in NAPLAN. Through regular engagement with our interactive content, students strengthen their understanding of key concepts while building the digital literacy needed for assessment success.
Conventions of Language Our curriculum-aligned English Wiz program helps students develop the key language conventions assessed in NAPLAN through interactive activities and practice assessments. At each year level, we focus on age-appropriate skills in:
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Spelling and vocabulary
Students develop these skills through interactive activities with immediate feedback, supported by our experienced tutors and personalised weekly lesson plans. Our program includes NAPLAN-style practice assessments that mirror the official format, helping students become familiar with both the question types and the online testing environment.
Numeracy Our curriculum-aligned, interactive activities help students develop the key numeracy skills assessed in NAPLAN:
- Number and algebra
- Measurement and geometry
- Statistics and probability
Using our Maths Wiz program combined with tutor support and personalised weekly lesson plans, students learn through interactive tutorials that break down concepts using diagrams, pictures and text. Our program includes NAPLAN-style practice assessments that mirror the official format, helping students become comfortable with online numeracy questions.
Reading Comprehension Our comprehensive reading program develops the five key areas of reading comprehension:
- Monitor (tracking understanding while reading)
- Analyse (examining text features and purpose)
- Visualise (creating mental images of the text)
- Connect (linking text to personal knowledge)
- Summarise (identifying main ideas and key points)
Through our English Wiz interactive tutorials and reading journals, students engage with level-appropriate texts while developing these essential comprehension skills.
Writing Our writing program helps students develop the skills needed for NAPLAN's narrative and persuasive writing tasks. Through guided writing tasks, students receive:
- Writing prompts similar to NAPLAN style questions
- Clear guidelines for each text type
- Support with planning and structure
- Ongoing feedback from tutors
- practice with both narrative and persuasive texts
Working closely with our tutors, students learn what makes a strong piece of writing through a step-by-step approach. No matter your child's current writing ability, we'll support and guide them to build confidence and understanding of different writing styles.
Throughout our weekly lesson plans, students can access practice tests designed to mirror the NAPLAN experience. These online assessments help students become familiar with both the question types and testing environment they'll encounter. Combined with our comprehensive curriculum-aligned lessons, this regular practice builds the knowledge and confidence students need for success in their actual assessment.
Our Maths Assessment (Maths Doctor) will immediately provide a complete report detailing your child's understanding of the Curriculum. We will then create a learning plan to go back and fix the areas of the Curriculum your child needs help with.
Combining a long-term learning plan with NAPLAN test preparation will ensure your child is confident going into their NAPLAN testing and will also feel confident all year round.
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