Description
Help students recognize who is telling a story and how that perspective matters.
- Grades: 2–3
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students will identify point of view and explain how it shapes a text.
What's Included
- 10 practice texts (9 story selections and 1 play) and 2 assessments (1 story and 1 play).
- 2 model texts, anchor charts, and teacher guidance.
- Scaffolded comprehension questions and answer keys.
- Printable PDF and Google Slides formats.
- Classroom use
- Use model texts for whole-class instruction, practice passages for small groups or independent work, and assessments to check understanding. Rainbow Reading encourages students to color-code evidence and build the habit of returning to the text to support answers.
- Passage titles & Lexile levels
- The Big Storm — 460L
- My Missing Bear — 500L
- Getting Ready for the Big Cookout — Lexile level not provided
- Ferris Wheel Fear — 540L
- Letters from Summer Camp — 560L
- A Doggy Day — 580L
- A Difficult Day — 610L
- Dance Talent — 610L
- A Car Ride With Dad — 730L
- Cinderella Stories — 810L
- Assessment: The Cafeteria Dilemma — Lexile level not provided
- Assessment: The Pointed Truth — 600L
- Model text: The Spelling Bee — Lexile level not provided
- Model text: To Fish or Not to Fish — Lexile level not provided
Ways to Use
Whole-class instruction, small groups, independent practice, or enrichment.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Source-listed alignment: RL.2.6, RL.3.6.








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Hello Third –
Great Resource! This is such a fun way to get students learning Point of View! The stories are fun and interesting which makes it a great resource that kids want to use. I loved the varying points of view!
Amelia Hobson –
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Jene H. –
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Kelli S. –
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Gina F. –
Great variety of texts to teach POV
Kelly L. –
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Katherine C. –
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Mayra G. –
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Marnie H. –
I like how they has started asking questions more like the end of the year state test. These kids need more examples
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Erin W. –
This was a wonderful tool to use with my students.
Morgan W. –
I used this as my group work for centers as was so impressed with the responses.
Franna Bari F. –
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Mrs MacMacMac –
Great resource!
Randi Lipp –
It worked perfectly for showing my students how two people or characters can feel differently about the same event.
Julie M. –
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Callie F. –
This is a great resource to supplement my point of view unit.
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Wendy H. –
I have all of these resources for second grade. They are great! They have up-to-date texts with color pictures. I’ve used them for small group, individual seat work, and morning work.
Emily S. –
My students have been able to use this with OneNote and have had success.
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317 Teach –
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Tech4Tinies –
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Brianne Verhoog –
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Amy Grout –
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Wai Chun C. –
As part of my lesson on the points of view of characters, this was very helpful.
Pamela S. –
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Diane C. –
I used this resource in a small group. We used it while I had my formal observation with my principal. She loved the material and so did I.
Angie S. –
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Tracey Sutton –
I used this during small groups. It was easy to differentiate my instruction with this resource.
Amelia H. –
My students love your passages. They have been great for skill practice/development.
Tania G. –
It was a good activity to help students understand point of view and find text evidence.
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Julie F. –
My students did this as partner work in a center. They were able to do it with little direction and the text was short enough to be used during centers. Great resource.
Lynn E. –
I used this resource for my walk to read group and found it very helpful in reinforcing
Point of View. The students enjoyed using the different colors to highlight text evidence.
Snuggled Up In Second Grade –
Great resource!