Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?
This interactive exhibit takes learners on a literary journey through the classic short story.
Read Works
Read Works: My Whiskers
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with a cat telling about how he uses his whiskers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetry: Varying Views of America
Lesson allows students to examine the various views of American perspective through studying three poems by diverse poets: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and "On the Pulse of Morning"...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View
Use these brief explanations to help you determine the narrator and point of view in any piece of literature. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Author's Purpose and Point of View
This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Opposing Points of View in History
After reading/listening to the picture book I am the Dog I am the Cat by Donald Hall in which two characters have opposing viewpoints, students are asked to look deeply at opposing viewpoints of real people just before the Revolutionary...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction
Identify and understand an author's choice of point of view, including limited versus omniscient and subjective versus objective.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What's Your Point (Of View)? Practice 6 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify point of view and understand how it shapes fiction.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Narrator's Point of View (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Recognize how the narrator's point of view shapes a short story.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Character Map [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: The You View
Students will write effective business messages that incorporate a second-person point of view and focus on the benefit to the reader. This approach is often used to create positive messages, neutral messages, and inquiry messages in...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Why Does No One Ever Thank Me for the Magna Carta?
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Columbus
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From My Mother's Voice: The Proclamation
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story" by Chuck Larsen
A learning module that begins with "The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story" by Chuck Larsen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Other
University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Wilson or Ditch: Comic Strip Activity
This activity will motivate spatial intelligence learners by allowing students to create their own Wilson and Ditch comic strip, and will challenge them to take Wilson or Ditch's point of view.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: You Were There!
Comprehensive activity plan for elementary-level students that uses literature to enhance social studies content. Students read a work of historical fiction about the Boston Massacre (My Brother Sam Is Dead by James and Christopher...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Practice for 3rd Grade Test
Point of view example sentences and associated pronouns in this review exercise. The following words are included: first person, second person, third person, I, me, mine, myself, we, us, ours, you, he, she, it, her, his, him, hers,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Practice for 3rd Grade Match
Point of view terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the first person point of view and the third person point of view.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Practice for 3rd Grade Flashcards
Point of view terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided to help students see examples of the first person point of view and third person point of view.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Test
Point of view terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: first person point of view, second person point of view, third person omniscient point of view, third person objective point of...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Match
Point of view terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: first person point of view, second person point of view, third person point of view, third person omniscient point of view,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Point of View Learn
In this activity, students will type the point of view term associated with each definition or example. When given a definition or an example, students will practice identifying the following terms: first person point of view, second...