Dialogue: What's the Point of View?

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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• How many Disney character voices were you able to guess?

Nice work!

In this lesson, you will learn about characters. You will think about the point of view they use. You will also practice reading their words aloud in fun voices!

This is important because it will help you to understand the characters and the type of people they are better.

First, watch this video to review what characters are.

Every character has a point of view.

• What is point of view?

Watch this next video to find out!

Point of view is who tells a story and what the characters think about something.

You may have heard of first-person point of view and third-person point of view.

• What do those mean?

To find out, watch another video.

Characters can have different points of view. They share their points of view through dialogue.

• What is dialogue?

Watch one last video!

Just like we all have different voices in real life, characters in books have different voices from each other, too.

You should hear these voices in your head when you are reading to yourself.

You should do a different voice for each character when reading aloud. That helps keep track of the characters and know who is talking.

• How can you do that?

Here are some steps.

1. Think about which characters are in that part of the story.
2. Think about which characters are TALKING in that part of the story.
3. Use a voice that would match the character who is speaking.

When you are ready for the Got It? section, click ahead!