5.10.E
The Standard
identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify who is telling a story and decide whether the narrator speaks as a character or from outside the story. They explain how that choice limits or expands what readers know.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly name the point of view and cite narrator words as evidence. They explain how the narrator’s position affects what the reader knows about characters and events.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may label any passage with “I” as first person, even when the word appears in dialogue. They may think third-person narrators always know every character’s thoughts.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short narrative and ask, “Who tells the story, what point of view is used, and what information is kept from the reader?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs pronoun cards and short passages to sort into first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient groups.
Ask students to rewrite one scene from another character’s point of view, then describe what information changed.
Play Point of View Detective, where teams identify the narrator from passage clues and earn points for citing exact words.
Compare two news reports about the same event and discuss how each reporter’s position shapes the details included.
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Related Standards
- 8.9.E
identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony;
- 6.9.E
identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose;
- 3.10.E
identify the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- 4.10.E
The 4th Grade version of this standard.
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