Who Is Talking?

Aligned to RL.1.6 — Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

What this lesson teaches

In a story, someone is telling us what happens. Sometimes a character talks and tells their part.

Example 1

"I found a shiny rock!" said the boy. Here the boy is telling us, because he says "I."

Example 2

'She will never find it,' whispered the fox. Here the fox is speaking, because the words are inside the quotation marks next to 'the fox'.

Example 3

When nobody is named, the person telling the story is the narrator — someone outside the story looking in.

Every lesson comes with a video taught in English and Spanish — the same video the QR code in the printed workbook opens.

En un cuento, alguien nos dice lo que pasa. A veces un personaje habla y cuenta su parte.

Ejemplo 1: "¡Encontré una piedra brillante!" dijo el niño. Aquí el niño nos habla, porque dice "yo" (encontré).

Ejemplo 2: 'Nunca la va a encontrar', susurró el zorro. Aquí habla el zorro, porque las palabras están entre comillas junto a 'el zorro'.

Ejemplo 3: Cuando no se nombra a nadie, quien cuenta es el narrador — alguien fuera del cuento que lo está mirando.

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