South Dakota ELA 3.RL.6

ELA3rd GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Identify the point of view in a text and distinguish the student's perspective from that of the narrator or characters.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students figure out who is telling a story. They describe how the narrator or a character sees an event, then compare that view with their own.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can tell whether the narrator is a character or an outside voice. They point to words in the story to explain a viewpoint and say how their own view matches or differs.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think the narrator and every character share the same opinion. They may treat their own reaction as something the story says, rather than a separate view.
How to Assess It: Give students this passage: “I grinned when the rain started. ‘Now our game is canceled,’ Eli groaned.” Ask: “Who tells the story? How does Eli feel about the rain? How do you feel about it?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a page from a class read-aloud to highlight narrator words in blue and character speech in yellow, then label each speaker.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask, “Would you build with straw? How would the first pig answer?”
Play “Whose view?” with cards that say “Narrator cheers for rain” and “Sam hates canceled soccer”; students add a card with their own view.
Read a short story about canceled recess; have students compare the narrator’s reaction with how they would feel at school.

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