Who Is Telling the Story?

Tell when a character or a narrator is speaking.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 39

Someone is always telling a story. Sometimes it's a character in the story. You can tell because they say I, me, and my.
Ava says My name is Ava, and I saw a giraffe. So Ava is telling this story!
Sometimes a narrator tells the story, someone who isn't in it. The narrator says he, she, and they, never I.
Characters speak too! Words in quotation marks show who is talking: "Good dog!" said Ben.
Ask: who says I? Who is talking in the quotation marks?

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

1.T.C.2.a — Identify who is speaking or telling the story at various points in a text. (I)