NAPLAN Year 3 Reading
Students will be tested the ability to read and understand a range of texts that are suitable for this year level. These texts appear in, for example, picture books, illustrated chapter books, junior reference material and the electronic media.
Typically, texts that these students are able to read have predictable text and sentence structures. Words that may be unfamiliar are explained in the writing or through the illustrations.
Typically, these texts use straightforward, everyday language.
When students read and understand texts like these, they can:
- identify the main purpose of the text (eg say that the purpose of a set of short simple instructions is to help you do something)
- identify a sequence of events in stories
- find directly stated information in the written text and/or illustrations
- make links between ideas stated directly and close together in different parts of a text (eg predict the end of a story; work out a character’s feelings from an illustration; make links between a diagram and its label)
- work out the meaning of some unfamiliar phrases and words.
