Activity Description
Title: Fiction - - Point of View”
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of this critical Literary standard - - Point of View. Students identify the varying points of view in a text and the different perspectives of the characters in the story. On the high-stakes tests, students are usually asked to compare the points of view of two characters in the same of similar texts. [ At Grades K-5, each Activity attaches student-sized texts, templates, and test items that teachers can quickly print and use immediately in class.]
Enabling Skills: (1) identify the perspective from which an event, person, or objects is viewed; (2) distinguish between one character’s viewpoint in the story and that of another.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. Students identify not only the 1 st , 2 nd , or 3 rd “person” for each text but the various “perspectives” shown by the characters. It may be negative or positive; carefree or worried; hoping for X result; afraid of Y result - - whatever describes that person’s attitude or inner feelings, supported with text detail. Sample texts are provided for students to determine a narrator’s or character’s viewpoint.
Quick-Writes: Standards-based writing prompts are provided that require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery. In this Activity, the Quick-Writes ask students to (a) write about a text from a different character’s point of view; and (b) use the viewpoint of a partial text to write an ending.
High-Stakes Look-Alike Assessments: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include two tests - - one for practice - - followed by classroom analysis of errors made - - and the second test to determine mastery. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
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