Year 7 · English · Modern novel study · Lesson 1

Openings and narrative voice

Novel study: narrative voice (first and third person) and how openings hook the reader, using the original novel ‘The Night Library’, with PEE analysis.

18-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Identify first- and third-person narration
Explain how openings hook the reader
Select short quotations
Write a PEE paragraph about an opening

The method

Narrator?
Hook?
Quotation.
Effect.

Key words: narrator, first person, third person, hook, opening, quotation, PEE.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is a narrator?

Step 1: Voice

Answer: the voice that tells the story

Question 2

Is the narrator always the author?

Step 1: No

Answer: no

Question 3

Which pronouns show first-person narration?

Step 1: Me

Answer: I, me, we