3rd - 8th Grade Point of View and Perspective Resources

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.