ALEX Lesson Plan Resources

ALEX Lesson Plans  
Subject: English Language Arts (3)
Title: What Is the View?
Description: This lesson is a third-grade English Language Arts lesson that focuses on first, second, and third-person points of view. The students will watch a two-minute video describing the three points of view. During the video, the teacher will stop the video for students to take notes. Then, the teacher and students will use Shel Silverstein’s “Boa Constrictor," Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, and Adam Rubin’s Secret Pizza Party and determine the point of view of each. Next, students will partner up and create three separate comic strips on MakeBeliefsComix.com. The students will use one point of view per comic strip.  Lastly, students will present their comic strips to the class.

Subject: English Language Arts (3)
Title: The Other Side of the Fence: Point of View at the Zoo
Description: This third-grade English Language Arts project lesson is focused on point of view using the zoo as a theme. The lesson includes a zoo field trip or virtual zoo field trip, class discussions, a mini scrapbook point-of-view project, and a short presentation to the class. This lesson could be modified for upper or lower grade levels.