Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.10.E
identify the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
3rd Grade Reading - Point of View Lesson
Point of View
Point of View
The pointofview in a story is the person's view from which the story is told. Most stories are told in either first-person point of view or third-person point of view.
Point of View: FIRST PERSON
When a story is written in the firstperson —
The narrator is telling the story from his or her own point of view.
The narrator may be a character in the story.
The story is told with pronouns like I, we, me, and us.
Example:
❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋
Point of View: THIRD PERSON
When a story is written in the thirdperson —
The narrator is usually not a character in the story, but an unnamed speaker.
The narrator could be "all-knowing"—aware of all the characters' thoughts and actions.
The story is not told with the pronoun I. Instead, it is told with the names of characters and pronouns like he, she, they, and them.