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3rd grade reading & vocabulary
Course: 3rd grade reading & vocabulary > Unit 1
Lesson 6: Reading for understanding: poetryA story's point of view | Reading
Stories have points of view. Let's talk about the three flavors they can come in!
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- What perspective is it when you transition from third to first person or vice versa?(13 votes)
- Third-person POV can more easily jump around in time. The ability to smoothly transition between past tense, present tense, and future tense ...
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- can you please up vote me(12 votes)
- I'm not calm. Haven't been for bit of a while.1:33(9 votes)
- Can there be 2 or more pov's in a story?(10 votes)
- there can be how ever you want!(2 votes)
- how can you can use first second and third person.(5 votes)
- You can use first second and third person by limiting the amount of knowledge in a story and using certain pronouns. To use first person, simply use I, me, or my as pronouns. In first person the reader gets to see what the main character is thinking and feeling. Second person uses you, you're and yours as pronouns and feels like it is giving directions to the reader, as it states what you feel in the current situation. Third person has two variations, third person limited and third person omniscient. In third person limited, the reader only gets to know what one character is feeling, but uses he/she/it pronouns. In third person omniscient, the reader gets to feel, and access all of the characters thoughts, with no limitation whatsoever.(5 votes)
- is all of this truth in life.(5 votes)
- does that mean i am the person being ordered just asking? 1:15(3 votes)
- In second person point of view, you are the person ordered. It depends on who is reading the book, if your friend reads it, then it is ordering him, if I read it, it is ordering me, as I would then be the "you" the book refers to.(4 votes)
- vote for me if SLAYYYYYYYY💅😝(4 votes)
- uhh why should we? give me a answer.(2 votes)
- david what are you talking about(4 votes)
- Which book has more povs(3 votes)
Video transcript
- [David] Hello, readers. Today, I wanna talk all about me. Well, I wanna talk about three things. First, I wanna talk all about me, then I'm gonna talk about you, and then we're gonna talk about them. David, what are you talking
about, you're probably asking. Well, in a word, POV. In three words, point of view. Every story has a point of view. It's being told to us
by someone, a narrator. But who is that narrator? Understanding the answer to that question in the stories that you read will make you a strong reader. There are three different
flavors of point of view. First, second, and third person. First person is when the narrator is a character in the story. They use words like I, me, and my. Here's an example. I bolted out of bed, grabbed my backpack, and rushed out the door. Today was the day I was
finally going to learn to ride a horse. First person narrators can only tell us the parts of the story
that they experienced or already know about. If something happens that the
narrator doesn't know about, we, the reader, won't
know about it either. Second person is when you
are a character in the story. This is pretty rare. A lot of the choose your
own adventure books, that were popular when I was a kid, used second person point of view, but they're not as big as they used to be. Imagine a guided relaxation recording, when you think of second person. (calm music) You are calm. Your breathing is slow and even. You are sitting on a bench,
looking at the ocean. The ocean is calm, and so are you. This kind of point of view usually sounds like it's giving directions
to you, the reader. The most common point of view in stories is the third person. A narrator who isn't a
character in the story. A third person narrator uses
words like he, she, and they, for characters in the story, instead of I, or you. It lets the story teller get inside the heads of characters to see how they're feeling, or what they're thinking. Here's an example. Beni opened his closet
door to grab a jacket, only to be greeted by
a horrifying monster. He screamed and ran out of the room, scared out of his mind. Inside her monster costume, Rita giggled. She had tricked her brother! See how we can follow both Rita and Beni? The narrator can see what
both of the are thinking or feeling at the same time. Now, imagine if that
little snippet were told from Rita or Beni's first
person's perspectives. Rita using I, or Beni using I, instead of a third person POV, using he or she. We might see it differently,
reading that story. From Rita's perspective,
it's a funny prank, from Beni's, it's super scary. He just saw a monster. So to recap, there are three
different types of narration or points of view in a story. First person, the narrator is
a character inside the story and uses words like I or me. Second person, the narrator
is speaking directly to you, the reader, and uses the pronoun you. This is rare and it sounds
like it's giving directions. And third person, the
narrator is outside the story. In telling it, they use
words like he, she, and they. What's the POV of your favorite story? Is it first person, second, or third? How would it feel different if it were told from a
different point of view? Would the narrator know different things? I can tell you one thing
I know for certain, and that's that you can learn anything. David out.