Point of View Pronouns

Introduction

• 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.