Year 5 · NAPLAN
Year 5 NAPLAN reading practice
Year 5 passages start asking for judgement rather than retrieval: why the writer chose that word, what the character is not saying. Children who are used to hunting for the matching phrase often find these questions strange at first.
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 5 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
Urban Gardens – Growing Green in the City
Where can urban gardens be planted?
Question 2
Urban Gardens – Growing Green in the City
What is one benefit of urban gardens for people?
Urban gardens help people .Question 3
Urban Gardens – Growing Green in the City
Match each item to how it is affected by urban gardens.
3 remainingItems to organise
Drag each item into a category. On touch screens, tap an item and then tap a category.
Improves0Drop items here
Increases0Drop items here
Decreases0Drop items here
Question 4
Urban Gardens – Growing Green in the City
What does “heat island effect” mean in this text?
Question 5
Urban Gardens – Growing Green in the City
What is one challenge mentioned about urban gardens?
Some people worry about .Question 6
The Bell in the Workshop
Reading passage
100%
What information was hidden under the tape? Drag the correct option into the blank.
Drag your answer here: Drag hereAnswer options
Drag an option to a blank, or tap the option then the blank.
Question 7
The Bell in the Workshop
Reading passage
100%Which word in paragraph 3 means 'make disappear'?
Type the word:Question 8
The Bell in the Workshop
Reading passage
100%Which two actions helped preserve the bell's history? Choose two.
Keep going with the full papers
Six Year 5 reading papers, 165 questions across a range of text types.
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