Naplan mock test

I've been marking tests and playing with Excel in order to try and make things clearer for everyone and improve the focus of my teaching. 
Just thought I'd show you the graph of the Language Conventions test we did late last term...



Now, up to Q25 is all spelling. For Q1-Q12 the children were told which word was spelled incorrectly, and for Q13-Q25 they had to find it for themselves. You can see for yourselves that these spelling results are not thrilling, but also they are not unexpected. Children just don't read enough today.
The rest is all grammar and punctuation, and these results are more encouraging. The questions start easy and get harder, so we expect to see the graph bars get shorter as we go on. One of the biggest dips in this section would be Q29, and I've included it here for you...

Q29 Class 5 Blue is going on _______ excursion to the zoo this term.

Possible answers:     * a              * this          * an           * some

Almost everyone who got it wrong gave the same answer, and I'm sure you can guess what it was.

Congratulations must go to Ashleigh for topping the class, and also for only getting a single question wrong (Q47) for the grammar and punctuation set. I'm sure she's not going to mess up another contraction problem anytime soon.