Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 4 of 11

Whose Story?

First, second and third person

What your child practises

Telling first, second and third person apart, finding the clues, and imagining how a different narrator would change the story.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Reading: Text Analysis and Criticality · point of view and perspective

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

Question 1
A story speaks to the reader as you. What point of view is it?
- third person
- second person
- first person
Question 2
Which words show the point of view?
Pack Your Bag
You open your suitcase and stare at it. You have only an hour before the car arrives. You fold your jacket and wonder what you are forgetting.
- you and your
- I and my
- he and his
Question 3
What point of view is this?
The Science Fair
I carried my volcano model carefully down the hall. My hands were shaking, and I worried that the baking soda would spill before the judges arrived.
- first person
- second person
- third person
Question 4
Which change would put this in third person?
The Science Fair
I carried my volcano model carefully down the hall. My hands were shaking, and I worried that the baking soda would spill before the judges arrived.
- Change the volcano to a rocket.
- Add the word you.
- Change I and my to she and her.
Question 5
How does second person affect the reader?
Pack Your Bag
You open your suitcase and stare at it. You have only an hour before the car arrives. You fold your jacket and wonder what you are forgetting.
- It makes the story shorter.
- It makes the reader feel part of the story.
- It hides the characters.
Question 6
A story is told by a narrator who knows what every character thinks. What is this called?
- second person
- omniscient third person
- first person