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Who is telling this story?

Read three original stories told through “I”, “she” and “you”. Follow two worked examples, then answer twenty questions about what each voice lets readers know.

This is one narrative viewpoint foundation, with original stories and questions. It gives practice with feedback, and scoring stays with the official test.

Choose this learning goalBrowse Year 7 English

The lessons and practice open from a saved Year 7 narrative point-of-view goal with current learning access.

One scene, three places to stand

  1. I · First person“I thought the gate was broken.” Readers begin with the teller’s mistaken belief.
  2. She · Third person“Mara thought yellow meant stop.” A narrator outside the scene still follows Mara’s thought.
  3. You · Second person“You cannot see behind the curtain.” The reader takes a visitor’s limited position.
The examples come from the original foundation texts. The pronoun names the grammatical person; the evidence shows whose knowledge readers receive.

How you learn it

  1. Prepare. Find the teller and the limits of their view.
  2. I do. Follow two complete voice-and-effect models.
  3. We do. Try five guided questions with three prompts.
  4. You do. Try five with less support, then ten independently.
  5. Revisit. Return after 3, 7 and 14 days and explain with labelled evidence.
Learner and full teaching explanations share the same online questions. Four A4 print editions, student copies and answer copies, use the same texts and answers. The linked curriculum lesson remains in its existing single-presentation format.

Your route in the Learning Map

This mapped skill and its 21 authored prerequisites form one saved route. Earlier lessons stay open for revision.

View all 22 lessons in the route

Reading and viewing

  1. Knows that print carries a messageKindergarten
  2. Predicts what a text will be about and links it to your lifeKindergarten
  3. Uses words you already know to make sense of a textKindergarten
  4. Finds who, what, when, where and why in a textKindergarten
  5. Knows that texts are made for different reasonsKindergarten
  6. Works out how a sentence puts its meaning togetherKindergarten
  7. Retells a text in orderKindergarten
  8. Sees how purpose, audience and setting shape a textYears 1–2
  9. Knows how a story is builtKindergarten
  10. Reads complex sentences and tracks what each word refers toYears 1–2
  11. Identifies how structure, features and design achieve a text's purposeYears 3–4
  12. Makes simple inferences using clues in the textYears 1–2
  13. Follows narrative patterns and the feelings they createYears 1–2
  14. Reads dialogue, quoted speech and reported speechYears 3–4
  15. Pulls information together from across a whole textYears 1–2
  16. Describes how plot, character and setting work togetherYears 3–4
  17. Retells and summarises what was readYears 1–2
  18. Identifies the main idea and supporting detailsYears 3–4
  19. Tells themes apart from topicsYears 3–4
  20. Sees how perspective and context shape literatureYears 3–4
  21. Explains how perspective is shaped by context and authorial choiceYears 5–6
  22. Analyses narrative voice, focaliser and person (the target)Target skill · Years 7–8

What this covers

Year 7 reading descriptions include interpreting a narrator’s intentions and how ideas develop through characterisation. This foundation teaches one linked NSW Stage 4 viewpoint skill.

NAPLAN Reading also uses other text types, technology-enhanced responses and tailored testlets; this route focuses on viewpoint.

Sources: NAPLAN proficiency descriptions, what is in the tests, 2026 assessment framework and NSW Stage 4 English (checked 5 October 2026). EdDots wrote these questions independently.