EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6
Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The instructional activity has four parts with multiple...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
Transforming Education
SEL for Educators Toolkit
Four resources make up the SEL toolkit for educators. Intended for those that teach kindergarten to twelfth grade, helpful files include a companion guide, presentation, reference list, and a one-page snapshot that neatly showcases the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
Contains plans for two lessons that teach point of view using the book "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg and titles from the from the "Look Once, Look Again" series by David M. Schwartz. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Teaching Point of View
This teaching module provides a way to help students identify the point of view in a text. Essential point of view definitions and worksheets are provided. A multi-slide PowerPoint presentation is included that provides graphic...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Examining Point of View
Who is telling the story? Learners analyze whose eyes the reader is looking through. Students will learn that there is more to point of view than knowing who is telling the story. This lesson will teach them about the nuances of the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Literary Text: Point of View and Tone
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about point of view and tone in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Reviewing Point of View and Tone, Unreliable Narrators, Third-Person...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What's Your Point (Of View)? Practice 6 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about point of view in six lessons: Introduction, A Different Perspective, Person of Interest, Center of Attention, Vantage Point, and...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Point of View Activities
This learning module provides assorted activities for teaching and reviewing the concept of point of view with students. The following activities are provided: point of view comic strip; point of view flash cards; point of view practice...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.6: Distinguish Their Own Point of View
Links to 22 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.5: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.4.6: Compare/contrast the Point of View From Different Stories
Links to 29 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.6: Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first and third person narrations.
Read Works
Read Works: Point of View Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students first and third person point of view and the differences between them. Lessons are based on the books White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman, Where...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View
In this lesson, students compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cool Views
In this activity, students will learn the meaning of preservation and conservation and identify themselves and others as preservationists or conservationists in relation to specific environmental issues. They will understand how an...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Viking Ship Design Challenge
In this design challenge, students learn about the Vikings from an engineering point-of-view. While investigating the history and anatomy of Viking ships, they learn how engineering solutions are shaped by the surrounding environment and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?
Students explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and move)...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Fairy Tales to Teach the Short Stories
Familiar fairy tales are used as guides to help students analyze the elements of the short story: plot, theme, setting, point of view, and character.
British Library
British Library:20th Century Teaching resources:e.m Forster's a Room With a View
This series of activities is designed to provide learners with opportunities to investigate the writer at work. By deconstructing E.M. Forster's style and contextual influences, they will develop and improve the quality of their...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tears in Rain
The goal of this activity is for students to develop visual literacy. They learn how images are manipulated for a powerful effect and how a photograph can make the invisible (pollutants that form acid rain) visible (through the damage...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Look Who's Talking
This is an introductory lesson plan to learning who is speaking in a story. The students do this specific skill after the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and labeling who is talking in the guided practice...
PBS
Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular . Teaching Guide | Pbs
In this unit, young scholars will learn about the Holocaust through the point of view of the Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. The accompanying teaching guide includes activities related to self-reflection, listening,...