Author's Point of View Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.7.6

Core Standard
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Before composing any major work an author often decides on a basic plot for a story, but then they must decide the point of view that they wish to tell the story from. Do they use a character that is active in the story and tell the story from a first-person perspective? Authors often will use a narrator that is a detached observer of the action as it unfolds. This would place the story in the third-person objective. Very skilled writers can also immerse their readers in the story and tell it from the second person perspective. This is a critical literary device for any work because it entirely determines how your audience views the world you have created. It will in turn change how they feel toward the work. These worksheets help students identify the point of view the author has set in motion for them.

Author's Point of View Worksheets To Print:

Why Did They Write That? - You given the task the author has to perform. We ask for the gist of their purpose.

Approaching A Topic - We were kind of stuck on the idea of the plate tectonics. How does each author approach the topic differently?

What's the Point? - Determine what the author is trying to do. Are they trying to entertain, persuade, or inform? We start you with simple sentences.

Method To The Madness - We don't just ask you to identify what something is, but why it is that way too.

Answer the Line - More rapid fire sentence squashers for you.

Why Vote At All? - Name at least two things that the passages have in common. Why do you feel the author shifts gears in this one?

What's The POV? - Explain how the author develops the material in order to meet her objective.

Understanding an Author's Argument - Complete the activity for each author, to trace and evaluate each author's argument.

Analyzing Arguments - Think of an argument in a piece of writing as being like an Oreo cookie: reasons with appeal, evidence and examples are the stuffing that hold an author's argument?

Oreo Controversy - What is the author's opinion and claim? Write it below in your own words, or quote the author.

Tracing an Author's Argument - Complete the activity below for each author, to trace and evaluate each author's argument.

What the Purpose of the Sentence? - These are great class starters or review sheets. Read into them and see why these were put together.

Why Was It Made? - We examine the motives of different forms of media and literature. You will label each train of thought.

Evaluating an Author's Arguments - Place a check mark next to each persuasive strategy that the author uses.

Main Purpose - One last worksheet for the road. A solid set of practice for you.

How Do You Determine an Author's Point of View?


While reading any written work by someone else, it is essential to determine the point of the view of its author to fully understand the meaning of the text. An understanding of the author's point of view is also important to analyze a text and to work out on the deeper meaning that the author might be trying to convey indirectly through the text. While it is not always possible to fully judge an author's unexpressed point of view from a text, here are some techniques that can help in this regard:


Pay More Attention to the Paragraphs Where Writer is the Narrator


In many stories and novels, the author uses certain fictional characters from the plot as a narrator and their dialogues thus proceed the story. However, in such works, there are some paragraphs between the actual scenes where the original author becomes a narrator either to give more details about the characters, settings, and the event or to comment on the situation going on. Paying extra attention to the vocabulary and sentences structure used by the writer in such narrative paragraphs can reveal a lot about his or her actual point of view.


Analyze the Title of the Work


A title of any work, even when it is not more than a word or two, can reveal a lot about the work and the point of view of the writer about whatever is being described by the work and therefore, you must focus on the titles of the works.


Study the Author's Personal Life


An author's childhood, economic and social status, and various other factors contribute a lot to shaping his or her mindset which is always reflected in the form of the author's point of view in his or her works. Knowing about an author's personal life can help a reader in determining his or her point of view easily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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