Point of View

Point of View

Recently I had the opportunity to visit all our third grade classrooms and focus on point of view. To begin the lesson we used an anchor chart and talked about the different points of view that a story can be told in. We also talked about how characters within a story can have a certain point of view depending on how the story is being told. 

We started the lesson by reading Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. At the end of the story we talked about what point of view the story was being told in. Then we talked about looking at the story through Jasper the Rabbit's point of view and the Creppy Carrot's point of view. The students noticed how Jasper loved to eat carrots because it was his food, they also noticed that the carrots didn't like being eaten and started to haunt Jasper. We used this chart to the left to record our thoughts.

To end the lesson, we read, The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of The Three Little Pigs. Then students used a Google Docs to compare points of view from each story and how the points of view changed! Check out the Student Examples Below: