When teaching point of view, a lot of teachers focus exclusively on teaching about 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person point of view. In fact, when I googled “teaching point of view,” almost the entire first page of results were lessons on what point of view the narrator tells the story in.
But point of view is so much more than that. Teaching point of view means encouraging 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to recognize that people don’t always agree on things because we all have different life experiences that have helped shape our opinions.
Teaching point of view means helping students understand that you can’t trust everything you read because authors have biases, and to distinguish their own point of view from an author’s.
Teaching point of view means modeling to students how to disagree with somebody who has a different opinion in a constructive rather than a hurtful way.
While teaching students to distinguish between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person is often a focus of upper elementary standards and lessons, other aspects of point of view are much more practical and essential in the real world.
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