TutorForAll

Focused preparation · Year 7 reading

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. It is not an official NAPLAN paper, complete Reading programme, tailored test or score estimate.

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 student and tutor print editions use the same texts and answers. The linked curriculum lesson remains in its existing single-presentation format.

Your route in the learning tree

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

View all 22 lessons in the route
  1. Earlier foundationKnows that print carries a messageKindergarten
  2. Earlier foundationPredicts what a text will be about and links it to your lifeKindergarten
  3. Earlier foundationUses words you already know to make sense of a textKindergarten
  4. Earlier foundationFinds who, what, when, where and why in a textKindergarten
  5. Earlier foundationKnows that texts are made for different reasonsKindergarten
  6. Earlier foundationWorks out how a sentence puts its meaning togetherKindergarten
  7. Earlier foundationRetells a text in orderKindergarten
  8. Earlier foundationSees how purpose, audience and setting shape a textYears 1–2
  9. Earlier foundationKnows how a story is builtKindergarten
  10. Earlier foundationReads complex sentences and tracks what each word refers toYears 1–2
  11. Earlier foundationIdentifies how structure, features and design achieve a text's purposeYears 3–4
  12. Earlier foundationMakes simple inferences using clues in the textYears 1–2
  13. Earlier foundationFollows narrative patterns and the feelings they createYears 1–2
  14. Earlier foundationReads dialogue, quoted speech and reported speechYears 3–4
  15. Earlier foundationPulls information together from across a whole textYears 1–2
  16. Earlier foundationDescribes how plot, character and setting work togetherYears 3–4
  17. Earlier foundationRetells and summarises what was readYears 1–2
  18. Earlier foundationIdentifies the main idea and supporting detailsYears 3–4
  19. Earlier foundationTells themes apart from topicsYears 3–4
  20. Earlier foundationSees how perspective and context shape literatureYears 3–4
  21. Earlier foundationExplains how perspective is shaped by context and authorial choiceYears 5–6
  22. Target conceptAnalyses narrative voice, focaliser and personYears 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 that this route does not reproduce.

Sources: NAPLAN proficiency descriptions, what is in the tests, 2026 assessment framework and NSW Stage 4 English (checked 5 October 2026). TutorForAll is not endorsed by the assessment provider.