NAPLAN FOR LESSON PLANNING
Assessment Task 2: Using grade level data

Task description: Using grade level data to inform teaching and learning: Analysis of NAPLAN data

and lesson planning

Assessment Task 2 is an individual assignment. lncreasingly, schools are using data provided through NAPLAN to inform

the content orfocus ofteaching and learning, with teachers developing/implementing instructional sequences that meet the specific literacy
learning needs of students as revealed by NAPLAN data. This task is designed to familiarise you with the information available about
Australian schools on ACARA’s MySchool website; to develop your understanding ofthe range of knowledge and skills tested via the NAPLAN
literacy tests; and to further develop your capacity to use data about student performance as the basis fortargeted instruction.

You are

to use data available through ACARA’s MySchool website as the basis for developing a teaching-learning sequence that addresses a specific
literacy learning need for a group of students. To do this, you will need to:

Select a school on the MySchool website and examine the 2012

data relating to the performance ofa particular year group (3, 5 or7) across the three NAPLAN literacy tests: Reading, Writing and
Language Conventions (spelling, punctuation and grammar).

Using the information from the MySchool website about student performance on ONE

(1) ofthose tests, combined with your understanding ofthe knowledge and skills assessed via that test, identify a specific area of need
that will provide the basis for developing a focused literacy teaching-learning sequence. (For example, you might chose to examine student
performance on the Reading test, and from there chose inferential comprehension as yourteaching-learning focus.)’

Other resources

Other

resources that you can access to help you with your studies in this unit include:

the Australian Curriculum: English, available at

http://wwvv.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Curriculum/F-10

descriptions ofthe National Minimum Standards in literacy, available at
http://wwvv.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/7-12assessments/naplan/nms/index.html

sample NAPLAN tests, available at

http://wwvv.nap.edu.au/NAPLAN/The_tests/index.html

ACARA’s 2012 NAPLAN Persuasive Writing Marking Guide, available at
http://wwvv.nap.edu.au/_Documents/PDF/2012%2oMarking%2oGuide.pdf

Develop a teaching-learning sequence (three lesson plans + resources) that

addresses the identified literacy learning need and which is characterised by best practice literacy instruction.

You will also need to

provide a statement that includes the name of your chosen school, contextual information, details of student performance on the selected
NAPLAN literacy test and what, as a result of your analysis ofthis data, combined with your understanding ofthe knowledge/skills assessed
via this test, you have identified as a specific literacy learning need forthese students.

Other resources that you can access to help

you establish specific areas of need include:

the Australian Curriculum: English, available at

http://wwvv.australiancurriculum.edu.au/English/Curriculum/F-10

descriptions ofthe National Minimum Standards in literacy, available at
http://wwvv.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/7-12assessments/naplan/nms/index.html

sample NAPLAN tests, available at

http://wwvv.nap.edu.au/NAPLAN/The_tests/index.html

ACARA’s 2012 NAPLAN Persuasive Writing Marking Guide, available at
http://wwvv.nap.edu.au/_Documents/PDF/2012%2oMarking%2oGuide.pdf

the First Steps Map of Development (for reading and writing).