Preparing your child for NAPLAN

1
Preparing your child for NAPLAN

• Parent Information Evening
• 31st March 2009
• Presented by Melinda Stewart
• Head of Curriculum

2
What is NAPLAN?

• NAPLAN is the acronym for National Assessment
  Program Literacy and Numeracy.
• These are National tests administered to every
  student in Years 3, 5, 7, 9
• All students participate in the tests on the
  12th, 13th and 14th May 2009

3
How do I read the results?

• Each student can achieve within a scope of 6
  Bands
• Year 3
• Bands 1 6 (Band 2 National Minimum Standard)
• Year 5
• Bands 3 8 (Band 4 National Minimum Standard)
• Year 7
• Bands 4 9 (Band 5 National Minimum Standard)
• Year 9
• Bands 5 10 (Band 6 National Minimum Standard)

4
(No Transcript)
5
Which tests do students participate in?

• Reading comprehension and use of text types
• Writing using the features of language and
  literacy to construct a text
• Language Conventions use of spelling, grammar
  and punctuation
• Number knowledge and use of concepts in number,
  patterns and algebra, measurement, space, chance
  and data
• Number Calculator (Years 7 9 only) knowledge
  and use of solving multi-step questions requiring
  more thought processing

6
What happens at school?

• The curriculum of the school exposes students to
  all of the concepts needed to achieve well.
• Teachers plan learning experiences for the
  students that will provide opportunity to develop
  knowledge and understanding of the concepts.
• Students use their skills in class to demonstrate
  their knowledge and understanding of concepts.
• Teachers refine learning experiences to suit the
  needs of the students when they are experiencing
  success or difficulties.

7
How can I help at home?

• Talk about the test with your child
• Develop your childs confidence by encouraging
  them to try their best
• Talk about test taking skills answer easiest
  questions first, highlight sections of texts,
  mark questions to come back to, work must be done
  independently, have a go
• Encourage students to use their time now to
  prepare
• Relate test taking skills to real life situations

8
Reading

• Listen to your child read
• Read to your child
• Expose children to a range of texts stories
  with a message, poems, newspaper items,
  information texts, letters, book and movie
  reviews, maps, graphs
• Ask questions about what they are reading, let
  them highlight the text as they go

9
While reading the text.

• Ask questions such as..
• What other words could be used?
• What does that sentence/phrase mean?
• Who is talking? (use when there are conversations
  between characters)
• Why do you think that is happening/happened?
• Start questions with who, what, where, when, why,
  which and how.

10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
Writing

• Help your child with writing their homework
• Encourage your child to write any text this
  helps them concentrate and become confident
• Ask your child to proofread their work before you
  look at it with them spelling, punctuation
• Listen to your child read what they have written
  and help them understand where punctuation should
  be used in the text.

13
While writing tasks together

• Help your child with..
• Sounding out words when spelling
• Knowing when to put a punctuation mark
  statement, question, exclamation, comma
• Quotation marks and using them to show who is
  speaking
• Reading a paragraph after it is written to check
  it sounds right

14
(No Transcript)
15
Grammar and Punctuation

• Do a practice spelling test with your child
• Ask your child to write down things for you
  shopping list, to do list check spelling
• Encourage your child to write a letter to a
  relative and help with spelling, punctuation etc
• Write lists/passages/instructions that have
  mistakes and get your child to correct them
• Ask your child to look up words in the dictionary
  for you

16
(No Transcript)
17
(No Transcript)
18
Number

• Incorporate numeracy and the 5 strands into
  everyday activities
• Number number facts and counting
• Space where can different shapes be seen
• Patterns and Algebra what is missing from the
  equation
• Measurement talk about different methods of
  measuring
• Chance and Data talk about possibilities of
  things happening
• Count aloud with your child whole numbers,
  decimals, dollars, metres, fractions
• Read maths questions with your child and help
  them understand how and where to start

19
While doing maths together.

• Help your child with
• reading the whole question before starting
• knowing other words for plus, multiply, divide,
  minus such as add, product, share, subtract
• using everyday activities that require numeracy
  concepts

20
(No Transcript)
21
(No Transcript)
22
What now?

• Keep contact with your childs teacher
• Ask your child to explain what they learnt at
  school that day
• Keep talking about the test
• Send notes to the teacher asking for other
  helpful resources
• Prepare your child for the day by making sure
  they get into the pattern of going to bed early
  and having breakfast