Point of View 4th Grade

How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• pronouns like I, my and him are used
• the author is addressing the reader
• the narrator is not in the story
• pronouns like I, my and we are used

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

• 3rd person OMNISCIENT
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person objective
• 1st person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Ester smiled brightly at his back, shrugged casually, and kept voice smooth as she reassured, "I'm not going anywhere." to laugh as she saw his shoulders almost flinch. 

• 1st Person
• 3rd Person Limited
• 3rd Person Omniscient
• 3rd Person Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Ana keeps telling us to stop taking her gum. She thinks that it is us, but it is really Frank who takes her gum. What do you think should be done?

• 2nd person
• 3rd person objective
• 3rd person OMNISCIENT
• 1st person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

John's neighbor is angry because John plays loud music every day. John is frustrated at his neighbor because his neighbor complains too much. They talked about it and came to a compromise--John will still play his loud music every day, but will only play for 1 hour instead of 2.

• 3rd person OMNISCIENT
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person objective
• 1st person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap.  She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease.  At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.  

• first-person
• second-person
• third-limited
• third-omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes 
And we scrounged.  Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary.  We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses.  Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained.  I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone.  We let her have one of the mattresses.  

• First-person
• second-person
• third- limited
• third-objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel 
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"  So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.  

• third-limited
• first-person
• third-objective
• third-omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.
 Leslie sat in front of Paul.  She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist.  Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him.  He wanted to pull a pigtail.  He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank.  He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair.  But most of all, he just wanted to pull one. 

• First-person
• Second-person
• Third-Objective
• Third-Limited

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

John looked nervously at Patty as she reached into the cage without hesitation. She seemed to not to be scared of snakes in the slightest. 

• 1st Person
• 3rd Person Limited
• 3rd Person Omniscient
• 3rd Person Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6