Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.2.6
The Standard
With prompting and support, acknowledge differences in the perspectives of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud, and how those perspectives shape the content of the 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 notice when characters want or believe different things. With a teacher’s prompt, they explain how those views affect what characters say and do. They use different voices when reading each character’s lines aloud.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that a pig sees the house as shelter while the wolf sees it as something to get into. They can point to each character’s words and read the lines in voices that fit.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say characters feel differently without explaining what each one wants. They may read every line in the same voice or confuse a character’s words with the narrator’s.
How to Assess It
- Give students this passage: “Rabbit guarded the carrots she had grown. Mouse had not eaten all day. ‘Keep out of my garden!’ Rabbit said. ‘Could I have one carrot?’ Mouse asked.” Ask what each character wants, how that changes what they say, and have students read both lines aloud.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs pig and wolf stick puppets, then have them act out a scene from The Three Little Pigs using a voice for each character.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask: Why does the pig want the door shut while the wolf wants it open?
Make dialogue cards for the pig and wolf, then have pairs match each line to a character and read it aloud.
Describe two classmates who both want the last marker, then have pairs write and read one line for each classmate.
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Related Standards
- RI.3.6
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.
- RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the perspective of different characters or narrators in a text.
- RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the perspective of the narrator or speaker 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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