Lesson Plan
First- and Third-Person Point of View
Use this lesson to help your ELs understand which pronouns to use when writing from different points of view. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a support lesson for the *My View as an Ant* lesson.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to define characteristics of both first- and third-person narrative styles.
Language
Students will be able to orally explain a narrative with first-person pronouns using sentence stems and a graphic organizer.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Access prior knowledge of point of view by reading aloud a short paragraph. Then, have students draw a quick sketch of the narrator on a white board. For example, "When I walked into class, I saw a new student. The new girl looked just like me. She was busy working, but she seemed nervous. I wanted to talk to her later. I knew how it felt to be the new girl. It’s not easy!"
- Tell students that they just worked to identify the point of view, or who is telling the story. There are two types of point of view narration: first-person and third-person.
- Share that the students will analyze new words, sentences, and a paragraph to help them understand how to identify the point of view in a story. They will also write a first person narrative.