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AUTHOR CHOICES

Determine points of view

Identify who is telling the story.

Read about the same hilarious situation told from three different points of view.

Infer who is speaking and how he feels

Connect perspective and point of view using fractured fairy tales.

Discern POV versus Perspective.

Return to previously-read text to discern points of view versus perspectives.

Practice inferring an informational text’s point of view and its perspective.

Study these six passages, all about the beach. Each is a different combination of perspective and point of view. (Answers)

Relate story narrator to poem speaker.

Determine the role, influence, or perspective of a speaker in a poem.