Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

Students will apply critical thinking skills to reading and writing.

 For more specific genre information, please refer to Genre Guidance (page 4 of the Support Documents.).

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

6.3.R.2 Students will evaluate how the point of view and perspective affect grade-level literary and/or informational text.

• Students will analyze how the author’s point of view and perspective affects the reader’s interpretation of the literary or informational text.

Supporting Resources

Teacher Insights

Smekens Education Purpose, Point of View, and Perspective (webpage with video)

• Point of view: the way in which an author reveals a viewpoint or perspective. This can be done through characters, ideas, events, and narration.

• First person point of view informs the reader of what only that character is thinking and feeling.

• Pronouns: I, mine, me, we, ours

• Third person is an outside narrator.  Readers must infer the thoughts of the characters, or the narrator may be “all-knowing.”

• Pronouns: he, she, it, his, hers, its, they

• Two types of third-person point of view:

• Omniscient third-person: narrator is all-knowing observer who can describe everything and can reveal every character’s thoughts and feelings.

• Limited third-person: narrator views the world through a single character’s eyes.

• Perspective is how the characters view and process what is happening:

• Perspective focuses on how the narrator or a character perceives what’s happening within the story; how the character feels in the story and requires inferring.

• “What’s the Difference Between Perspective and Point of View”

• An author’s or character’s perspective often reveals any bias that character may have.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.