Point of View

What point of view uses the word 
I?

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

What point of view uses the word 
he?

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

What point of view uses the word 
we?

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

What point of view uses the word 
your?

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

What point of view: 
I love pizza. It is my favorite food! 

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

What point of view: 
John said he was going to the pumpkin patch with his family. 

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

What point of view: 
Before you leave you need to clean your room! 

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

What point of view: 
I love it when we go to the zoo! 

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

What is the POINT OF VIEW in a story?

• the perspective from which the story is told

• the characters in the story

• the plot of the story

• the setting of the story

FIRST PERSON point of view is...

• The narrator addresses the reader with "you" and "your"

• The narrator is inside the story as a character: "I" and "my"

• The narrator uses words like, "he", "she", "they"