Georgia 1.T.C.2.a
The Standard
Identify who is speaking or telling the story at various points in a text. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Context
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students track whose voice is heard in each part of a story. They use dialogue tags, speech bubbles, pictures, and events to notice voice changes. They distinguish the author from the narrator and characters.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a page or short passage, a student can label each line as narrator or a named character. The student can point to a dialogue tag, speech bubble, quotation marks, or picture as evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name the author when asked whose voice they hear. They may assume the main character says every line or miss changes between characters. They may also confuse narration with dialogue.
How to Assess It
- Give students three lines: Ava said, “My kite is stuck”; Dad answered, “I will help”; the wind shook the tree. Ask them to label each line Ava, Dad, or narrator, then circle the clue.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs character puppets and a three-line dialogue; students raise the matching puppet whenever that character speaks.
Read a picture-book page and ask, “Who is talking now, and which words or picture prove it?”
Play Speaker Switch: read narration and dialogue cards aloud while students point to labeled narrator and character cards.
Play a short school announcement and classroom conversation, then have students name each voice and explain how they knew.
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