A fun and explicit lesson for students in grades 2-6 to develop their ability to determine point of view in a range of fiction texts. Maggie Hutching’s wonderful book, Your Birthday Was The Best! Is used as a mentor text to support student understanding, as they explore different texts and use clue words to identify the point of view being used.

4 Lessons

Grade: 2-6

Exploring Point of View

This mini unit will provide students in grades 2-6 with a range of opportunities to explore point of view in fiction texts. Explicit teaching, using Maggie Hutchings’ fantastic text ‘Your Birthday Was The Best’, will support students to determine point of view, and then consider different perspectives when reading and writing. While these lessons have been designed to be taught in a sequence, they can also be delivered as stand alone sessions, and can also be used with a different mentor text.

A fun and explicit lesson for students in grades 2-6 to develop their ability to determine point of view in a range of fiction texts. Maggie Hutching’s wonderful book, Your Birthday Was The Best! Is used as a mentor text to support student understanding, as they explore different texts and use clue words to identify the point of view being used.

4 Lessons

Grade: 2-6

Exploring Point of View

This mini unit will provide students in grades 2-6 with a range of opportunities to explore point of view in fiction texts. Explicit teaching, using Maggie Hutchings’ fantastic text ‘Your Birthday Was The Best’, will support students to determine point of view, and then consider different perspectives when reading and writing. While these lessons have been designed to be taught in a sequence, they can also be delivered as stand alone sessions, and can also be used with a different mentor text.

Essential Question/s

How can I determine the point of view in a text?
How can I consider different perspectives in fiction texts?
How can I use my understanding of point of view and different perspectives to enhance my own writing?

General Capabilities

Critical and Creative thinking
Literacy

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun and explicit lesson for students in grades 2-6 to develop their ability to determine point of view in a range of fiction texts. Maggie Hutching’s wonderful book, Your Birthday Was The Best! Is used as a mentor text to support student understanding, as they explore different texts and use clue words to identify the point of view being used.

Lesson
Reading

Exploring Point of View - Determining Point of View

Grades: 2-6

Determining point of view in fictional texts.

Lesson 2

An engaging and explicit lesson to support students to summarise a fiction text concisely. Using their learning about point of view, students consider the impact this has on the events in a text. Maggie Hutching’s wonderful book, Your Birthday Was The Best! Is used as a mentor text to guide student learning.

Lesson
Reading

Exploring Point of View - FNTF Summary

Grades: 2-6

Summarise a fictional text using First, Next, Then, Finally (FNTF).

Lesson 3

A creative and engaging lesson to support students to summarise a fictional text concisely, considering a different perspective to the narrator and/or main character. Using their learning about point of view, students consider the impact this has on the events in a text. Maggie Hutching’s wonderful book ‘Your Birthday Was The Best!’ is used as a mentor text to guide student learning.

Lesson
Reading

Exploring Point of View - Considering Different Perspectives

Grades: 2-6

Consider a different perspective to summarise a fictional text using First, Next, Then, Finally (FNTF).

Lesson 4

A creative and explicit lesson to support students to describe an image from multiple perspectives. Picture prompts are used to engage students and encourage them to consider different perspectives in their writing, and to further develop their understanding of point of view.

Lesson
Reading

Exploring Point of View - Writing From Different Perspectives

Grades: 2-6

Writing from different perspectives.

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