Curated OER
Study Guide: The Interlopers
In this study guide worksheet, students define vocabulary and literary terms used in "The Interlopers". Students answer comprehension questions based on the reading and fill in a chart with characters and their traits.
Curated OER
Study Guide: The Necklace
In this study guide for "The Necklace", students define vocabulary and literary terms found in the story. Students examine the characters and answer comprehension questions.
Curated OER
Narrative Strategies
Sixth graders explore strategies authors use to make characters and setting seem real to readers. They develop characters and describe setting in original narratives. Students read myths and determine common themes found in myths from...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Examining Point of View
Who is telling the story? Students 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: Narrator's Point of View (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Recognize how the narrator's point of view shapes a short story.
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: Analyze Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction
This lesson focuses on identifying points of view and recognizing points of view in literature.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Compare Points of View Narrator
Read a passage from a story to determine who is the narrator and what is the narrator's point of view. An additional practice exercise is available. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6
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.
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...
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...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Point of View
This learning module focuses on the types of point of view, how the point of view impacts the description of events, and the impact of the types of narrators. It provides an example with an explanation and a practice activity with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Point of View and Tone (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate connections between forms of narration (unreliable narrator, omniscient, etc.) and tone in works of fiction.
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...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Reading Literature: Craft and Structure: Point of View
This learning module focuses on point of view including the speaker or narrator, first and third person, perspective, and the thoughts and feeling of the speaker. It offers a model story with explanation and a practice story with questions.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View
Use these brief explanations to help you determine the narrator and point of view in any piece of literature. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Other
Meeting Characters in Literature: Point of View
A very clear explanation of narrator and point of view in literature. Because of the structure of the page and the use of highlighting, upper elementary students should be able to use this to help them understand the concepts, as well as...
Other
Ksu: Point of View: First Person Narrator
This tutorial surveys the uses and limitations of first-person narration in literature. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Point of View Worksheets
The learning module provides numerous drills via worksheet and video lesson links that cover different grade bands and text levels. Each exercise includes excerpts from famous works of literature and famous authors.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Point of View
From the University of Victoria's writing tutorial site, this section provides a multiple-paragraph discussion of point of view.
TES Global
Blendspace: Point of View
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, web sites, videos, and texts about first and third person point of view.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: 2nd Grade Point of View
A slide show with seven slides on point of view in a literary text.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View
In this lesson, young scholars 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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: First Person Point of View
This lesson introduces the first person point of view.