South Dakota ELA 6.RL.6

ELA6th GradeReading Literature

The Standard

Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator, speaker, and/or the audience.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students track what a narrator or speaker thinks and feels as a story or poem unfolds. They use specific words and details to explain how that view develops, and consider who is being addressed.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to lines that show a narrator's view changing and explain what caused the change. They can explain how a speaker's words suit a particular listener.
Common Misconceptions: Students may name first or third person without explaining the narrator's view. They may treat the narrator as the author or miss how a speaker chooses words for a particular listener.
How to Assess It: Give students this passage: 'I thought the stray dog would bite. It limped closer. I held out my sandwich.' Ask them to name the change in the narrator's view and cite two details that show it.

Lesson moves

Give pairs three sentence strips: 'I locked the door,' 'She carried my lost bag,' and 'I waved her in'; students arrange and mark the change in trust.
Ask students to describe a missed bus to a friend and then to a teacher, then explain which details they changed and why.
Play a card sort with 'I hid my wallet,' 'She returned my keys,' and 'I thanked her'; teams order them and explain the changing view.
Compare 'Bummer, game canceled' with 'Coach, can we reschedule?'; students name each audience and explain the different wording.

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