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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Danielle Fields –
This resource made teaching point of view a breeze in class. They students loved all of the activities and passages.
Snapp Snippets –
This is a great additional resource for point of view.
connie B. –
Enjoy using this resource with students. Great lessons.
Daily Dose of Rainbows –
Great resource! I enjoyed using this to practice cold reads with my students!
Hannah K. –
Great resource, engaging passages and activities. Thanks!
That Teacher Heart –
My kids love this resource! I am so happy I came across it and am looking forward to using more resources from you in the future! Thanks for a great resource!
Christine L. –
I really like this resource and my students were engaged as well.
Rachel S. –
Great resources to supplement our adopted curriculum.
terry C. –
Great resource! My students enjoyed this so much! They were engaged, and it worked well in my literacy centers.
Jacques’s Junction –
Super useful tool for my lower level readers to practice a grade level skill. I really enjoyed how it isn’t babyish for my higher functioning students.
Christopher Fox –
Perfect for what I needed. The students liked the stories and were engaged.
Trisha C. –
This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for a thorough and interesting product!
Cathleen I. –
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Madi Adkins –
This is a great resource to use in addition to our curriculum. It really teaches the students how to go back into the passage to find answers.
Kaymeo D. –
My students loved this resource. This is a great product and would really help students.
Ashley Forster –
I am in the process of going through these with my students. I did the first one with them, the next 2 in partners and am beginning to use them individually. The readings are very engaging and grade appropriate. The questions are great to understand point of view and see if your students are understanding. Very helpful resource.
Jenna F. –
These reading passages have become my go-to curriculum since we have not yet adopted a new reading curriculum. I love how easy they are to use with mutliple levels and many opportunities for practice. Thank you for your consisitenly great resources!
Debra L. –
Easy way to pull a small group to teach this skill.
Shirley R. –
I was very satisfied with this resource. The kids enjoyed it and it was great extra practice.
Andrea S. –
I love Magicore resources. They are super easy to use and the students don’t mind completing the worksheets. This resource was fantastic to use when getting ready for the state test.
loveandlessons –
An excellent resource for teaching point of view. The stories are engaging.
Briana P. –
This was a wonderful resource to use while we covered point of view. The passages were just challenging enough for my students. I always love your resources!
EmmaLee DuClair –
great resource to use for point of view
Janelle K. –
Worth every penny!
alyssa Mitchell –
These were a great activity to give to my students to do independently! They were fun and engaging, and I was able to see what they knew!
Jessica G. –
Great resource!
Mary C. –
Wonderful for my 3rd-grade classroom!
Benjamin W. –
Love having these as a small group option or for responding to reading. My students really enjoy the stories. I also love how it is leveled.
Deborah C. –
Excellent resource!
Tucker’s Teaching Treasures –
Love this resource!
Be Happy –
Great resource!
yolanda D. –
loved it
lindsey Wilkie –
Love these differentiated passages to work on specific skills!
Katelyn Mansfield –
Thank you!
Miss Decker –
Love this resource for my higher second graders!
Stephanie H. –
The reading passages worked great as small group work!!! I loved how they targeted the standard.
Nicole F. –
Wonderful resource!!
Polka Dots in Pittsburgh –
Great for small groups!
Elizabeth P. –
Great resource!
Jessica S. –
Great resource! Thank you!
celeste K. –
Easy, low prep resource to reinforce reading comprehension.
Brittany D. –
One of my go-to resources for small groups. Easy to differentiate with the different lexiles, while we all cover the same standard. I use to small groups as well as during intervention/enrichments.
michellekay –
Very engaging resource. Lots of options.
Angellena J. –
Thought-provoking and engaging
Angela W. –
My team and I used these resources to help us with our Deployment focusing on Point of View, The materials were engaging and we found that there were a variety of resources appropriate for each level of our group of our Deployment
CKLA Supplemental Materials –
One of my favorite resources! I love that it is standards based.
Katie Stephens –
Love this resource! It was great for my students!
Jessi S. –
Loved this resource! My students truly understood point of view after these practices!
Amanda S. –
Great resource
Jasmine D. –
Thanks for this awesome resource! Used it for review and in a student centers! The students enjoyed it!