Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.3.6
The Standard
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.
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 separate what the narrator tells from what characters believe and what they themselves think. They use story details to explain why people describe the same event differently.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short scene, a student can identify the narrator's account, each character's view, and their own view. They can point to words that make one account sound threatening and another sound harmless.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume the narrator agrees with every character. They may treat a character's claim as a fact or give their own opinion without using the text.
How to Assess It
- Read: 'The wolf knocked, and the pig bolted the door; the pig said the wolf wanted to eat him, but the wolf said he needed water.' Ask students to write what the narrator reports, what each character believes, and which view they share, then explain how the two claims change the meaning of the knock.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed wolf-and-pig knock scene; have them mark narrator words, pig words, wolf words, and their own reaction with four sticky notes.
Write 'He wants to eat me' and 'I need water' on the board, then ask why the pig and wolf describe one knock differently.
Play perspective sort with narration cards and pig and wolf quote cards; have groups place each card under a speaker and explain one choice.
Sketch a spilled lunch tray; have pairs write as the spiller and the cleaner, then compare which details each includes.
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Related Standards
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