This morning I went into a fourth grade class and taught a lesson on point of view. We started off by discussing the term and what they thought that it meant. They were familiar with the term. I then read them the book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and the excerpt from Amy buckner’s book about Mikey’s Muffins. We shared some ideas of what they could write about and away they went. For a first attempt at this grade level I thought the kids did well. The biggest problem I saw was that they had trouble staying in the other person’s character. They kept switching back and forth from the other person’s point of view to their own. The teacher is going to continue to work on this and see if they can get better at staying in the other person’s point of view.
Jill
Great reading-writing connection for this writer’s notebook lesson. I am familiar with this book – great choice for point of view. I don’t recall the Buckner reference but will check it out. Thanks for sharing! Annette
Point of view is fun to teach. The story used is one of my favorites and does help students learn the fundamental intention of writing to a point of view. Point of view is a writing skill that does need to be revisited for students because keeping in character is definitely tough. Like many other things, the more it’s practiced, the better students become.