Year 5 NAPLAN-style Reading Practice
Read a short story and a persuasive text, then answer ten Year 5 comprehension questions.
In this quiz you'll practise:
- Locate details and infer characters' feelings
- Identify the message of a story
- Recognise a writer's opinion, reasons and counter-arguments
- Explain figurative language and wordplay
Check each answer as you go. If you're not sure, you'll get a hint and another try. Every question has an explanation.
About this Year 5 naplan-style reading practice quiz
This Year 5 reading practice set is original Success Tutoring material written in the style of NAPLAN. It is not official ACARA material and is not predictive of NAPLAN results. Students read two original texts — a story about a nervous speaker at a school assembly and a persuasive piece arguing that every school needs a vegetable garden. The ten questions practise locating details, inferring feelings, identifying a theme, recognising a writer's opinion and counter-argument, and understanding wordplay. Each answer is explained with evidence from the text, so students learn how good readers justify their thinking.
Original passages with questions in the style of the NAPLAN Reading test. Not official ACARA material.
This is original Success Tutoring practice written in the style of NAPLAN. It is not official NAPLAN material, is not endorsed by ACARA, and a practice score does not predict a NAPLAN result. More NAPLAN-style practice
- Curriculum
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — English, Year 5
- Questions
- 10 · about 9 minutes
- Written by
- Success Tutoring Curriculum Team