Grade 03 ELA - EC: E03.A-C.2.1.1
Grade 03 ELA - EC: E03.A-C.2.1.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Activities
The Checks for Understandings below are designed as a guide for instruction. They represent a continuum of activities that teachers may use to move students to mastery.
- Who is the narrator of the story?
- What point of view is the story told from?
- Explain how you can tell what point of view the story is told from.
- This passage is written with a third-person narrator. Describe how the passage would be different with a first-person narrator.
- Imagine you are the main character in the story. Would your actions and feelings be the same or different? Explain.
- Choose a different character and retell the story in his/her point of view.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Students will identify who is telling the story. They will recognize if the narrator is a character in the story, or an outsider telling the story.
- Students will tell whether the story is told in the first-person point of view or third-person point of view.
- Students will recognize whether the narrator is a part of the story or is simply telling what is going on in the story. They will recognize whether the words I and my or the words he or she are used.
- Students will pull details from the story and demonstrate how to change them from third-person to first-person. They will describe how this change would affect the presentation of the story.
- Students will consider the main character’s thoughts and feelings in the story and decide if they agree or disagree with them. If they agree, they will explain why. If they disagree, they will describe how they would act and feel throughout the story.
- Student will choose a different character and retell the story that character’s point of view. They should make appropriate changes to the events and outcomes to reflect this new point of view.
