Georgia 2.T.C.2.a
The Standard
Use examples of language from the text to identify various points of view (e.g., first person, third person). (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 decide who is telling a story or passage. They use exact words from the text to tell whether the narrator speaks as “I” or describes others.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly identify first-person and third-person narration. They support each answer with words such as “I,” “we,” “he,” “she,” or a character’s name.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the author with the narrator. They may also see “I” in dialogue and incorrectly label the whole text as first person.
How to Assess It
- Give students one short first-person passage and one short third-person passage. Ask them to label each viewpoint and underline two words that prove their answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs pronoun cards and short passages, then have them sort each passage under first-person or third-person labels.
Ask, “Who is telling the story, and which words prove it?” Students answer with one sentence and two quoted words.
Play Viewpoint Detective by reading passages aloud while students hold up first-person or third-person cards and name their language clue.
Have students describe a playground event twice, once as a participant using “I” and once as an observer using names and third-person pronouns.
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