CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.6
The Standard
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
What This Standard Means
Students need to notice that characters can think and feel differently about the same event. They should use clues from words, actions, and dialogue to explain each character’s point of view. When reading aloud, they should show those differences with voice, tone, pace, and expression.
Mastery looks like a student saying, “The girl is excited, but her brother is worried,” and backing it up with text evidence. Students often get stuck by naming feelings only, or by using the same reading voice for every speaker. They may also mix up narrator voice and character voice.
Ways to Teach It
- Use two puppets and a short dialogue scene, then have students read each character’s lines with matching voice and expression.
- Ask students, “How does each character feel about the problem, and what words or actions prove it?”
- Give students three dialogue lines and ask them to match each line to happy, scared, annoyed, or confused.
- Connect to recess by asking how two students might feel differently about the same game or rule change.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.6
Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.