Point of View — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. The wolf says the pigs were mean to him. The pigs say the wolf tried to eat them. What is this Grade 3 example?
A) Two characters with different points of view
B) One narrator with one point of view
C) A first-person narrator only
D) A story with no point of view
Different Grade 3 characters can see the same event in very different ways.
2. A Grade 3 story says, He was scared, but Sam thought it looked fun. Whose point of view is Sam's?
A) The narrator's point of view
B) The character's point of view
C) The reader's point of view
D) The author's point of view
A character's point of view is what one person in a Grade 3 story thinks.
3. A Grade 3 narrator outside the story tells it using she. What POV is this?
A) First person
B) Second person
C) Third person
D) No point of view
A narrator outside the story using she is third-person point of view.
4. In a Grade 3 tale, Ana loves rain but Leo hates it. What does this show?
A) The same point of view
B) Only the narrator's view
C) Different character viewpoints
D) No viewpoint at all
Different feelings about one event show different character viewpoints in Grade 3 stories.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. When two Grade 3 characters see one event in different ways, they have different viewpoints.
Viewpoints is the Grade 3 word for how each character sees story events.
2. A Grade 3 narrator can tell a story while a character inside has a different point of view.
Narrator POV and character POV can differ in the same Grade 3 story.
3. In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf's Grade 3 viewpoint is he is only hungry.
The wolf's viewpoint centers on hunger, unlike Red's fear in Grade 3 retellings.
4. Red Riding Hood's Grade 3 viewpoint is that the wolf is scary.
Red's viewpoint is fear, showing a different Grade 3 perspective from the wolf's.
5. Comparing two Grade 3 viewpoints helps readers understand each character better.
Comparing viewpoints deepens Grade 3 readers' understanding of each character.