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We begin with a discussion of first person and third person, and how we determine these points of view when we read. (First person is told from “I” and third person is “he” or “she.”) By fourth grade, students should have a basic understanding of this and think about it every time they read a piece of text.

I tell students that we are going to do a unit of study on fairy tales, and that noticing point of view will come into play. We will be reading traditional fairy tales and then comparing them to “fractured” fairy tales.

I read aloud the first text, Little Red Riding Hood, and we answer these questions in the course of doing so. (Display these questions on chart paper—this is your anchor chart):

 Is the text written in first person or third person?

 How does this affect the narration and the point of view?

 Who is telling the story and why?

 What point of view does the narrator take?

First, I ask: Is this first person or third person? How do we know? I record students’ thinking on our anchor chart. I also ask: Who is telling the story (the narrator) and we discuss what a narrator is. As I continue to read, I think aloud as I notice specific places in the text where the narrator is expressing the point of view (Red Riding Hood, good; wolf, villain.) I use sticky notes to mark these spots so that we can go back to them when we finish the story.

After reading and discussing the story, students discuss the difference between first person and third person and determine who is telling the story. We talk about author’s intent. We record our answers to the four questions on the anchor chart, along with our examples from the text that prove it.

(Remember, you don’t have to use fairy tales; any genre could be substituted as long as you have at least two examples written from two different points of view. Folk tales are a terrific substitute and also lend themselves for multicultural content. The lesson would still be the same, it’s just the text and genre would be different!)