Using Point of View Activity, students identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Using RI.3.6 Third Grade Common Core Lesson, studentsdistinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.

Using RI.4.8 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Using this Author's Purpose Activity, students read and sort story idea cards to determine the author's purpose as to inform, entertain, or persuade.

Using Animal Myth Busters Author's Purpose Activity, students read animal myths to explain how an author uses evidence to support points in a text.

Using Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts Activity, students read both firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event to describe the differences in the information provided.

Using My Point of View Activity, students distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.

Using Author Research Activity, students explore books written by a single author to discuss opinions and ideas of that author.

Using RI.K.8 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, students identify thereasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Using RL.1.6 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Using RL.2.6 Second Grade Common Core Lesson, students acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Using RI.4.6 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic.

Using RL.4.6 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson, students compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated,including the difference between first and third-person narrations.

Using RI.5.6 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

Using RL.5.6 Fifth Grade Common Core Lesson, students describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

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.

Using this Making a Point with Support Worksheet, students read an information text to determine the reasons why the author wrote the piece.

Using RI.K.6 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson, studentsname the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.

Using RI.1.8 First Grade Common Core Lesson, students identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

This RL.1.5 First Grade Common Core Lesson includes RL.1.5 Worksheets, RL.1.5 Activities, RL.1.5 Assessment, and RL.1.5 Poster.