Narrative resources

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

This resource assesses students' ability to analyse text to identify and find evidence of the author's message and audience.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read a narrative about a family's encounter with a stray cat. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to evaluate the characters. SJ-1-3-2008. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

This task assesses students' ability to analyse a text to identify and justify character traits and points of view, including the author's.

Students read a narrative that is about being different and about group dynamics. Assessment focus: an evaluation of characters and the author's construction of them. (A link to the text is provided. Reading age <8.) SJ-1-4-2005. Text provided.