Point of View

When writing, authors must decide from what ___________ they want to express their ideas.

• subject

• point of view

What are the three points of view that authors can pick from?

• I have no idea

• hamburgers, french fries, and chicken nuggets

• first person

• first person, second person, and third person

Uses the pronouns: I, me, my, mine, we, our, ours.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

A character within the story recounts/retells his or her own experiences or impressions.

• First Person

• Third Person

Look at this page in the book, Diary of a Fly. What perspective is this book written in?

• Second Person

• Third Person

• First Person

What point of view is this where the author is telling the story, but is not directly a part of it.

• Second Person

• Third Person

What point of view is Wonder told as?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

When you see lots of pronouns: you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves, most likely, your story is written in what perspective. (Hint: the Babysitting Grandma story we heard yesterday.)

• First Person

• Second Person

The narrator is the

• person telling the story
• main character in the story
• enemy of the main character in the story
• person listening to the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which point of view uses the pronoun I?

• First person
• Second person
• Third Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6