Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.7.6
The Standard
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the perspective of different characters or narrators 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 track how different characters or narrators see the same event. They use thoughts, dialogue, and actions to explain how the author makes those views clear and sets them against each other.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to details that reveal each character’s view. They can explain why the same event means something different to each character, rather than just saying the characters disagree.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse a character’s personality with their view of a specific event. They may also describe what each character does without explaining what those actions reveal about how each sees the situation.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Read, “Maya counted the empty chairs and worried no one would come; Leo saw room to dance and grinned as guests arrived.” Explain how two details show their different views of the party.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two colors of sticky notes to mark each character’s thoughts and dialogue in one scene, then sort the notes by viewpoint.
After reading a disagreement, ask, “Which words show how each character sees the problem, and why might they see it differently?”
Hand out thought and dialogue cards from a familiar story; teams match each card to a character and explain their clue.
Read two student accounts of a canceled field trip and circle the words that show how each student feels about the news.
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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.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.
- RL.8.6
Analyze characters' and readers' perspectives and how the differences create effects, including but not limited to suspense, humor and empathy.
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