In this support lesson, your ELs will learn how to determine point of view in a text while using pronouns to support their understanding. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Mythological Creature: Vampire.
Students will learn about the folklore surrounding vampires and improve their reading comprehension skills.
Language
Students will be able to determine point of view in a text with pronouns using word banks and sentence frames.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
Invite a student up to the board to perform a task. For example, ask them to draw a picture of a unicorn on the board. While they draw, narrate their actions using pronouns (i.e., "She is drawing the unicorn's face. Now, she is drawing a horn.").
Explain that when you were describing the student's actions, you were acting like a narrator and telling about what they were doing from an outside perspective. Tell students that this way of talking about something is called the third person point of view.
Next, perform a similar action yourself. For example, draw a picture of a vampire. Narrate your own actions using pronouns (i.e., "I am drawing a vampire. My vampire has two sharp teeth.").
Explain that when you were describing your own actions, you were using the first person point of view because you were talking about an action you were doing yourself.
Tell students that today you will be discussing the words authors use to show point of view in stories.