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
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Reading, ELA
- Topic
- Author’s Purpose, Independent and Guided Reading
- Resource types
- Literacy Readers
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
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.
In the classroom
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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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Point of view
First person
Third person
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