Reading and Viewing
Comprehension that goes past retrieval: inference, technique, character and the way a text is built.
- Finding the main idea and supporting detail
- Inference from evidence
- Narrative structure and plot
NSW English Stage 4 (Year 7) strands - reading and viewing, writing and representing, language and argument - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did English Year 7” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Comprehension that goes past retrieval: inference, technique, character and the way a text is built.
Composing with a purpose: narrative craft, persuasion, paragraph structure and the editing habits that make writing readable.
The grammar and rhetoric underneath good writing: how sentences work and how an argument is built.
A English Year 7 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 2–3 |
| compose | Short answer | 3–4 |
| discuss | Extended response | 5–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.