Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Reading RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
This Common Core Standard is all about making students know what the narrator thinks about something and, more importantly, why they're sure that's how the narrator thinks. For example, they might know that the main character thinks the police are good guys, but how are we sure about that? Think of this standard as the inverse of its fifth-grade counterpart, which assumes that students know the character's point of view and asks them to extrapolate out (working outward). In sixth grade, students already know the character's point of view but instead have to figure out what reveals that point of view.
Example 1
Here's a lesson to use when your students are reading Freak the Mighty.
Have students use the characteristics of Max from Freak the Mighty to chart his decision-making throughout the story and create a life “road map” for the character.
Aligned Resources
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- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Because of Winn-Dixie: Yes, That's Actually the Title of This Assignment
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching Stargirl: Please Pass the POV
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- Teaching The Giver: Unique Like Everyone Else
- Teaching From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Will the Real Claudia Please Stand Up?
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Operation "I Spy"
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- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: POV FTW
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- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
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- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching Walk Two Moons: Walk Two Moons, Read Two Poems
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: Final Destination
- Teaching From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: And the Saga Continues…
- Teaching Hatchet: All Alone and Nowhere to Go
- Teaching Coraline: Talk to the Hand
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Different Perspective
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Getting' Graphic with The Wool Pooh
- Teaching When You Reach Me: The Write Stuff, Part II