Point of View Activity

Read-aloud point of view activity: as one student reads a book aloud, classmates hold up labels such as Author, Main Character, First Person or Third Person to show who is telling the story.
Grades
Grades 1–4
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Updated Jul 11, 2021

Subject
Reading, ELA
Topic
Author’s Purpose, Independent and Guided Reading
Resource types
Literacy Readers
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This activity will help your students to identify the point of view of the narrator in a text. It is a great way to get them thinking about the story and how the perspective of the narrator can change the way that the story is told.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify who is telling a story at different points in a text

  • Decide whether a passage read aloud is told in first person or third person

Teaching tips

  • Choose a grade-level book for the read-aloud; one is not included.

Skills covered

  • Narrator identification — students raise the label that matches who is telling each part of the story

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Core concepts

  • Point of view

  • First person

  • Third person

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