Knowledge and Skills Statement
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.4.10.E
Have students work in small groups, moving from one chart to another, each of which has an excerpt from a text. Task students with identifying whether the text uses first- or third-person point of view.
Further Explanation
Students should understand that an author may choose to write in first person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the main character’s point of view and third person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the narrator’s point of view.
Supporting Information for ELA.4.10.E