Kentucky Reading and Writing RI.3.6
The Standard
Distinguish their own perspective from that of the author of a text and describe how various perspectives shape the content and style of a text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Craft and Structure
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what an informational text's author thinks about a topic and explain how that view differs from their own. They notice how a writer's view affects the details and words in the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to a detail or word that shows the author's view. When reading two accounts of the same issue, they can explain why the writers chose different details and state their own view separately.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name the topic instead of saying what the author thinks about it. They may assume the author agrees with them or identify two views without noticing differences in details and word choice.
How to Assess It
- Give students these notes: Student: “Ten more minutes of recess means time for a full soccer game.” Principal: “Ten more minutes of recess would shorten math class.” Ask which writer favors longer recess, how each writer's detail shows their view, and which view matches the student's own.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two recess notes, one from a student and one from a principal; have them highlight telling details and sort sentence strips by writer.
Ask, “Would you add ten minutes to recess? Which detail would you use to persuade a principal, and which detail might the principal choose?”
Play perspective match: read four anonymous recess notes aloud, then have teams match each to a student, teacher, parent, or principal using word clues.
Use a cafeteria lunch flyer and ask students to write an honest review of the meal; compare the flyer's wording with their own.
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Related Standards
- RI.7.6
Determine an author's perspective and purpose in a text, and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
- RI.6.6
Determine an author's perspective and purpose in a text, and explain how it is conveyed in a text.
- RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the perspective of different characters or narrators in a text.
- RL.3.6
Distinguish their own perspective from that of the narrator or those of the characters, and describe how various perspectives shape the content of the text.
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