Common Core Standards
Grade 5
Reading RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
Students need to see that emotions are not truth; there are other ways of seeing the world. For example, if the narrator absolutely hates eating beets, then of course the narrator is going to describe any situation involving beets as gross; however, if the narrator loves beets, then any situation involving beets will be described as wonderful. A student who masters this standard will recognize that both situations are valid; it all depends on how a person views beets.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching Seedfolks: Something to Talk About
- Teaching Seedfolks: Hi. Where Are You From?
- Teaching Seedfolks: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Teaching The Borrowers: If I Could Turn Back Time: A Pre-reading Vocabulary Activity
- Teaching The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: A Social Class Re-Telling
- Teaching The One and Only Ivan: Wild Animals in Captivity
- Teaching The Borrowers: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
- Teaching The Secret Garden: Mary and Colin Become Tech Savvy
- Teaching The Borrowers: Keeping Up With the Korrowers