North Dakota First Grade Common Core - ND Curriculum Initiative

North Dakota First Grade Common Core!The Next Generation
Strand: Reading Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure
Topic: Point of View
Standard: RL.1.6
Identify who is telling the story at various points
in a text.
I Can:
• Tell who is talking to tell the story
Notes:
Tasks:
• Students become familiar with the
concept of narrator and the use of
dialogue. Teacher models changing a
passage from narrative to dialogue:
Narrative: She went to town. Dialogue:
“I’m going to town.”
• When reading aloud to students, model
using different voices to help students
identify who is speaking throughout the
story.
• As students read independently, remind
them that different characters often tell
the story at different times in a book.
Using a book such as Mouse Tales by
Arnold Lobel, allow the students to reread
parts of the text where the weasel
speaks, where the mouse speaks, and
where the narrator tells the story.
Provide a bowl of raw elbow macaroni at
each table. Ask students to use the
macaroni to cover the quotation marks in
the book, reminding them that it means
someone is speaking. Assigning the
parts to three readers will show others
how dialogue works in literature.
Source: ADE/ELA Committee
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