English·Reading Comprehension·conceptual
Characters' Viewpoints and Responses
Identify and compare characters' points of view, recognise who is narrating a story, describe how characters respond to events and challenges, and compare characters' experiences across different stories or versions of the same story
Suggested ages 6–8
Learning journey
Your child is developing deeper reading skills — understanding how stories are structured, identifying main ideas in informational texts, comparing characters' perspectives, and recognising how different text features help organise information.
Evidence of understanding
- Identify who is telling a story and explain how you know (e.g. 'The wolf is telling the story because he says I')
- Describe how a character responds to a problem or challenge using evidence from the text (e.g. 'When the bridge broke, she decided to swim across')
- Compare how two characters from different stories react to a similar situation (e.g. how two heroes show bravery in different ways)
Assessment prompt
When Characters' Viewpoints and Responses reads a story told from one character's point of view, can they think about how a different character in the same story might have seen events differently?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.