Year 5: Narrative Writing Growth Assessment
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Year 5 Narrative Writing Growth Assessment | Pre & Post Writing Tasks with Editable Rubric
Want clear evidence that your narrative writing teaching is working? This Year 5 assessment gives you 4 matched pre and post cycles (8 tasks), each built around an original illustrated visual stimulus that sparks a story, so you can see exactly how much each student has grown.
How it works
Assess → Mark → Teach → Reassess → Compare
- Assess: students complete the pre-assessment independently
- Mark: score the writing against the six-criteria rubric
- Teach: target your teaching to each student's lowest-scoring criteria
- Reassess: students complete the matched post-assessment
- Compare: re-mark and compare pre and post scores to measure growth
Visual stimuli include: a message in a bottle washed up on the shore; a mystery envelope left on the doorstep; a bedroom that isn't quite how it was left; an old trunk in the school storeroom; a railway tunnel unused for years; a shipwreck exposed at low tide, and more.
What's Included?
- Teacher overview and administration guide
- 4 pre/post cycles (8 matched narrative tasks)
- Original illustrated visual stimulus for every task
- Editable rubric (free Canva login required)
- Score guide translating total score into an overall band
- “Where to Next” teaching pathway
- 3 annotated benchmark samples (Developing, Meeting, Strong)
- Curriculum links to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and Australian Curriculum v9.0
Why teachers use it
- Every task is unique, so it can be used school-wide without repeats
- Matched pre/post pairs make growth measurable
- Benchmark samples give you a marking anchor before you start
- Coded to NSW and Australian Curriculum v9.0
- Print and go, no prep required
Resource Details
- Text type: Narrative
- Focus: Pre/post assessment and growth measurement
- Stage: Stage 3 (Year 5)
- Length: 4 cycles (8 tasks)
- Time: Approximately 40 minutes per task
- Format: 23-page PDF
This is a digital resource. You'll get an instant download link by email straight after checkout, and on your order confirmation page.
Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
Some Hello Primary resources are editable, such as our Canva frameworks and editable rubrics. If a resource is editable, the description will say so. If it isn't mentioned, the resource isn't editable.
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