Same Event, Two Points of View

Use First or Third Person Narrator to teach the clue words first. Then read Nobody Remembers aloud and ask students what they know that Noah does not.

Compare one soccer game told by Rosa the goalie and by Jaylen in the stands. The same event can seem very different depending on which character tells the story. The directions on the page read: Read both accounts of the same soccer game. Then complete page 2. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade story elements, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with narrator's point of view. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A third person limited narrator shares one character's thoughts, and an omniscient narrator shares many characters' thoughts. First or Third Person Narrator has students circle the type for 8 excerpts and underline clue words.

The narrator can share only what he sees, hears and thinks. In Nobody Remembers, Noah thinks his family forgot his birthday, but clues like the craft store bag point to a surprise.

Each narrator notices different things. In Same Event, Two Points of View, Rosa the goalie watches the striker's hips, while Jaylen in the stands notices the crowd, his pretzels and the cold wind.