This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing Point of View’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to explore the points of view of characters in a story.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Biography,’ helps students develop an understanding of the author’s point of view using context. It is aimed at showing students how the author’s life affects his or her ideas and viewpoints that they encountered in the text.
In the learning activity ‘Blocked Plans’ students have to help an architect match up plans and isometric drawings for three buildings. They then make models of the three structures and suggest ways the building could be used. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Building Boldly’ provides opportunities for students to explore the ways in which 3-dimensional objects can appear in different plan views. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Compare Squares’ helps students compare how two groups with different opinions view a historical event.
This learning activity, ‘Different Viewpoints’, asks students to make buildings out of multilink cubes and then draw the buildings from different perspectives. Square grid paper is included. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Disagree with Me,’ teaches students that they can disagree with the text or with what the author has written. It is aimed at helping students to become critical readers and to understand that authors often don’t show opposing viewpoints.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fact or Opinion’ asks students to sort information into facts or opinions after reading various texts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fact or Opinion for My Brother Sam Is Dead’ asks students to sort information into facts or opinions after reading My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier.
This graphic organiser, ‘Four-Square Perspective’ enables students to make connections and understand relationships as they piece together disconnected information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Four-Square Perspective for Bridge to Terabithia’ asks students to examine different points of view in order to better understand conflict in a story.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Key Words,’ teaches students about authors’ viewpoints and identification of opinion and bias. It is aimed at helping students to become discriminating readers by teaching them about key words that signal opinion.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘My Side/Your Side,’ helps students understand that there are often two sides to a story or problem issue. It is aimed at teaching students about author’s point of view by having them work with a partner to discuss two sides of a problem.
This graphic organiser, ‘Perfect Pyramids’ helps students visually recognise the enormous impact one person or event may have on many different individuals, processes and ideas.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Pros and Cons,’ helps students identify pros and cons. It is aimed at teaching students how to select and capture significant information from a text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tell It Another Way’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording a different point of view as they read or plan for writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Thinking About Point of View,’ helps students show their understanding of the author’s point of view. It is aimed at giving students practice with analysing the authors’ point of view after they have completed several activities about the concept.
This graphic organiser, ‘Travelling with Columbus’ helps students explain the trip of Christopher Columbus, then create their own route of exploration that they would like to travel.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Voice,’ helps students recognise what an author’s voice reveals in a text. It has students generate a list of words to describe the voice of the writer and examples from text to back up their opinion.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘What’s the Problem?’ teaches students that authors sometimes include their own beliefs in their writing. It is aimed at helping students understand bias by presenting it in ways they understand, such as student conflict.
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