Point of View Lesson

What is Point of View?

• Point of View is the way an author crafts his or her story to allow the reader to see and hear what is happening

• The points of view that are most commonly found in literature are:

– First Person Point of View – Third Person Point of View

• • (Second person is only used for guides or instructions using the pronoun YOU)

First Person Point of View

• You can identify first person point of view by looking for the following pronouns:

–I – Me, My – We, Us

The narrator is a character in the story.

The reader only knows what the NARRATOR reveals about their thoughts, feelings, and actions.