NAPLAN LITERACY SKILLS Revising and Editing Practice Workbook Year 5: Develops Language and Writing Skills

This workbook will give students extensive practice completing revising and editing tasks. Students will read full-length examples of student writing that contain errors. Each passage is followed by multiple choice questions that require students to improve the passage or to correct an error. This workbook will develop both language and writing skills, and improve performance on the NAPLAN Conventions of Language test and the NAPLAN writing tasks.
Extensive Revising and Editing Practice

- Provides practice revising to improve writing and editing to correct errors

- Revising tasks cover focus, organisation, sentence structure, transitions, word use, strong word choices, and more

- Editing tasks cover grammar, usage, capitalisation, punctuation, and spelling

- Covers the skills listed in the language and literacy sections of the Australian Curriculum
Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice

- 18 convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development

- Each practice set contains a full-length example of student writing with errors and opportunities for improvement

- Editing tasks require students to identify and correct errors in grammar, usage, capitalisation, punctuation, and spelling

- Revising tasks require students to improve the passage by adding sentences, combining sentences, rewriting sentences, choosing stronger words, adding or replacing transition words or phrases, and more

- Format allows for review and feedback after each set
Key Benefits

- Provides extensive experience completing revising and editing tasks

- Identifying errors in context improves language and vocabulary skills

- Develops and improves writing skills

- Helps ensure student writing follows standard writing conventions

- Prepares students for the NAPLAN Language Conventions test

- Improves performance on the NAPLAN writing test