Year 3 · NAPLAN
Year 3 NAPLAN reading practice
Year 3 reading is the first time many children meet a text they cannot finish in one glance. The trick is not speed but going back: the answer is almost always somewhere in the passage, and the question is usually pointing at it.
What the section covers
- Finding information
- Locating a detail that is stated directly, sometimes in a table or a caption rather than the paragraphs.
- Working things out
- Answers the text implies but never says — why a character acted, what happened between two paragraphs.
- Purpose and audience
- Deciding why a text was written and who it was written for.
- Comparing texts
- Holding two texts side by side and noticing where they agree, differ or contradict.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 3 papers, covering the different ways this section asks things. Answer the ones you can click; the rest show how they work. Nothing to sign up for.
Question 1
Sunny the Dog
What colour is Sunny’s fur?
Question 2
Sunny the Dog
What colour is Sunny’s tail?
Question 3
Sunny the Dog
Where does Sunny like to play?
Question 4
Sunny the Dog
What does Sunny like to do?
Question 5
Sunny the Dog
Whose dog is it?
Question 6
Sunny the Dog
What colours are the balls Tim gives Sunny?
Question 7
Sunny the Dog
Which ball is Sunny’s favourite?
Question 8
Sunny the Dog
Where does Sunny sometimes visit?
Keep going with the full papers
Nine Year 3 reading papers, 155 questions across narrative, informative and persuasive passages.
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