Year 5: NAPLAN Writing Program

4-Week NAPLAN Writing Program | Year 5 | Narrative & Persuasive | 16 Ready-to-Teach Lessons

Want your Year 5s walking into NAPLAN Writing knowing exactly how to plan, type and edit a text in 42 minutes?

This 4-week intensive program takes students through two weeks of narrative and two weeks of persuasive writing, with explicit teaching linked to the NAPLAN marking criteria. Every one of the 16 lessons comes with its own editable Google Slides deck, with teaching notes on every slide, so you can open it and teach. The full 4-week teaching and learning sequence is included as lesson guides, with learning intentions, success criteria and an evaluation/registration column for you to annotate as you go. Students write every lesson, building from sentences to paragraphs to whole texts. They finish each fortnight with a heavily scaffolded Text 1 and an independent, typed Text 2 written under test conditions.

Every lesson follows the same routine

Warm-up → I do → We do → You do → Check & edit

Students deconstruct a strong exemplar (The Switch for narrative, School Uniforms Should Stay for persuasive), then write one shared class text with you across three lessons, from The Signal to Video Games Are Good for Kids. Anchor charts, vocab walls and the official "Remember to" checklist are co-constructed as you go, so students have real tools to lean on when it's their turn.

What's Included?

• Google Slides for every lesson (16 editable decks), with teaching notes on every slide
• A 4-week teaching and learning sequence: lesson guides with learning intentions, success criteria and every teaching step
• An evaluation/registration column on every lesson guide for you to annotate
• Program overview and how-to-use pages
• 2 exemplar texts to annotate, plus weak and strong versions to compare on the slides
• NAPLAN-style prompt sheets for Text 2
• Narrative and persuasive planning templates
• Typed test-day routine card and "Remember to" checklist
• Anchor chart reference and vocab wall headers
• Criteria tracker for the 10 NAPLAN criteria
• Australian Curriculum v9.0 and NSW syllabus links

How Does Each Lesson Work?

Each lesson opens with a 5-minute warm-up, a mini grammar lesson where students learn it, spot it in a text they know and use it in their own sentence. In the I do, you model the skill or write the next part of the class text live, thinking aloud. In the We do, the class compares weak and strong examples, builds the anchor chart and writes together. In the You do, students write their own text. Every lesson closes with a 5-minute check and edit, so editing becomes a habit rather than an afterthought.

Why This Program?

• Explicit teaching of the NAPLAN criteria, not just practice tests
• Year 5 skills taught directly: building tension, twist endings, TEEL paragraphs, rebuttals and modality
• Gradual release in every lesson, from modelling to independent writing
• Practises the typed, timed test-day routine before Text 2
• Low prep, with Google Slides and teaching notes ready for every lesson

Pair it with the Writing Growth Assessments to measure progress before and after the program.

Resource Details

• Text Types: Narrative and Persuasive
• Focus: NAPLAN Writing criteria
• Year Level: Year 5
• Length: 16 lessons (4 weeks)
• Time: About 45 minutes per lesson (50 minutes for the two Text 2 lessons)
• Format: PDF with links to the editable Google Slides, available to download instantly after purchase

A focused month of writing that helps every Year 5 student feel ready for NAPLAN.