ALEX Classroom Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (4) 17 :

17. Identify the narrator's point of view in a literary text and explain how it differs from a character's perspective.

a. Explain the difference between first person and third person narration, including omniscient and third person limited.

b. State an opinion of the author's use of narration, supporting reasoning with examples from the text.

[ELA2021] (4) 18 :

18. Identify the point of view in a narrative and describe how the narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.

a. Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic, describing the differences in focus and the information provided.

b. Compare the perspectives of different characters within a text.

Most stories are written from a point of view of either a narrator outside of the story or a character in the story. A story’s point of view is all about who is telling the story or whose thoughts we are reading about. In this classroom resource, the students will learn how to identify two different types of points of view, first-person point of view and third-person point of view by watching an instructional video.