Fourth grade

Narrative writing unit

Day 6: Author’s point of view
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will review the difference between writing in first
person, second person, and third person point of view. Students will watch a Flocabulary

video to refresh them on the topic, take a short quiz, and be given time to work on their

drafts.

Time: 60 minutes

Resources or Materials Needed

• Chart Paper

• Markers

• Student Writing Notebooks

• Pencils

• ELMO

• SMART Board

• Access to Flocabulary video: Author’s Point of View

• Chromebooks with Internet Access (to access Transitions game)

• Author’s Point of View Quiz sheets

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Performance Objective: Given a five-question quiz, students will identify author’s point of

view in short passages with 80% accuracy.

Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities

• Students will engage in an web-based activity at

https://www.education.com/game/star-rumble-2/ to practice utilizing transitional words

and phrases that will later help their readers move smoothly through their story during the

natural unfolding of events that will take place.

• Students are asked to take out Google Chromebooks and access the webpage listed

above.

• Students will play the game Star Rumble for ten minutes before being asked to close

their Chromebooks.

Step 2: Content Presentation

• Students will join teacher at carpet area

• Teacher will tell students, “today we are going to review author’s point of view before

working on our first drafts.”

• Teacher will ask students to tell what they know about author’s point of view.

• During discussion, teacher will jot down notes on chart paper labeled Point of View.

• Teacher will show students the Flocabulary video “Point of View”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN9e_zg11vM telling them to pay special attention to

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the difference between 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person, because we will be taking a

short quiz on author’s point of view before moving to drafting our personal narratives.

• After the video, the teacher explains that most personal narratives are written in first

person point of view, but it is important to know the difference between first, second and

third point of view, and to make sure that you do not accidentally change point of views
half way through your story!

• Teacher will ask students to return to their seats and take out a pencil.

Step 3: Learner Participation

• Students will return to their seats

• Teacher passes out quizzes and instructs students to begin – they only have 5 minutes!

• After 5 minutes, the teacher collects quizzes

• Students are instructed to open to the page in their notebooks that they began their

first draft on (introduction paragraph from yesterday) and continue drafting their work,

referring back to their timeline to make sure that they are writing their story in sequence

and adding in the details that they wanted to include!

Step 4: Assessment

• During learner participation, students take a 5-question Author’s Point of View quiz

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Step 5: Follow-Through Activities

• Students participate in a stand-up-hand-up-pair-up activity in which they mix around

the room, find a partner, and read aloud their draft so far to their partner. Partners may

give feedback!

Printable RESOURCES
• Author’s Point of View Quiz (Page 5)

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