Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.6.6
The Standard
Explain how an author develops the perspective of the narrator or speaker in 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 explain how a narrator or speaker sees a person or event. They trace how the author's choice of details, words, and reactions builds that view.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name the narrator's attitude and point to words or actions that show it. They can explain how details across a passage strengthen or change that attitude.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may identify first person or third person and stop there. They may treat the narrator's view as fact, or name an emotion without showing which details build it.
How to Assess It
- Put this passage on the board: 'I thought the new kid was rude when he walked past me. At lunch, I watched him help someone pick up a spilled tray, and I felt bad for judging him.' Ask: 'How does the narrator's view change, and which details show that change?'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed paragraph from the class story; have them highlight the narrator's judgments and underline details that explain those judgments.
After reading a page together, ask, 'Which two words show how the narrator sees another character, and why did the author choose them?'
Write 'The door opened' on the board; teams add two details to make the narrator sound afraid, then rewrite them to show relief.
Have students write two accounts of a school lunch line, one from a hungry student's view and one from the lunch worker's view.
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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.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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