Whose Point of View Compare and Contrast Activity

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How to teach Point of View

Using this Whose Point of View Compare and Contrast Activity, students identify whether a story is being told in a first- or third-person POV, while comparing and contrasting the two.

A character’s dialogue and actions can give your students a lot of information about what they are thinking and feelings. This activity will help your students to learn more about the characters and author’s points of view on a topic.

Cut out and laminate the story cards and the First-Person and Third-Person trees. Also print the First-Person and Third-Person worksheet. Students will compare and contrast the POV from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narration. Sort the story cards under the appropriate point of view tree.

Other resources to use with this Point of View Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about point of view.

Use this Author’s Purpose Activity as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this activity by having students share what they know about a character from a story you recently read in class. Next, students share different ways that they learn about a character. Examples could be pictures, dialogue, what the author tells us, etc. Then, students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students share what they have learned about the differences between first- and third-person POV.

Be sure to check out more Author’s Purpose Worksheets.

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