Point of View Graphic Organizer – Who Tells the Story

How it works

This point of view graphic organizer starts from what a reader can point to on the page, the narrator's pronouns, and ends with the name. The other sheets ask what the point of view does to the story.

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Look outside the dialogue

Characters say I and you when they speak, whatever the point of view. Have students cover the words inside quotation marks and collect pronouns from the narration alone.

Point of view worksheets with graphic organizers, 4th-5th grade

Fourth grade compares stories told in first and third person, so pair the chart of the three persons with practice lines. Fifth grade describes how a narrator's point of view influences how events are described: use the sheet that follows one event.

A first person narrator is a character too, and can be mistaken or hold things back.
First grade asks only who is telling the story at each point. The names of the persons can wait.

Questions and answers

What are the three points of view?

First person, second person and third person. A first person narrator takes part in the story and says I and me. Second person tells the story with the pronoun you. A third person narrator calls every character he, she or they.

What is the difference between third person limited and omniscient?

A limited narrator stays with one character's perspective. An omniscient narrator sees and knows everything that happens in the world of the story, including what each character is thinking and feeling.

How do you find the point of view of a story?

Work out who is telling it, then look at the narrator's pronouns. I and me point to first person; he, she and they point to third. Last, ask whose thoughts the narrator tells.

All 11 organizers

Finding the point of view 4

First, second and third person chart A row for each person and three boxes: who tells the story, the pronouns to look for, and a sentence written that way.
Limited or omniscient: whose thoughts are we told? For a story in third person: the characters whose thoughts the narrator tells, the characters whose thoughts stay hidden, and a box for the verdict.
Narrator tracker One row a chapter, for a book whose narrator changes: who narrates, in which person, and what only that narrator could tell.
Point of view graphic organizer: narrator, pronouns, what is known Who tells the story beside the pronouns the narrator uses, a wide box for what the narrator knows, and a box at the foot to name the point of view.

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What point of view changes 4

How the point of view shapes an event Four boxes joined by arrows: an event, how the narrator describes it, what the narrator cannot know, and how another character might tell it.
The narrator's point of view and mine A line for an event or a character, a box for what the narrator thinks of it beside a box for what the reader thinks, and a box for why they agree or differ.
Rewrite it from another point of view Three numbered boxes joined by arrows: a few lines as the author wrote them, the point of view to change to, and the rewrite.
Two narrators, one event The same event as two narrators tell it: what each one sees and feels, what only each one knows, and how the story changes with the teller.

Younger readers 1

Who is telling the story? Primary lines A space to draw the one who tells the story, over two boxes on primary lines: who is telling it, and how the reader knows.

Filled-in samples 2

Sample first, second and third person chart, filled in The chart of the three persons written in, with one made-up sentence for each.
Sample point of view organizer, filled in The boxes of the opening sheet done for a made-up story told by a girl who finds a cat at a lighthouse.

How this list was compiled: Our own layouts and wording; no publisher's organizer is copied. First, second and third person, their pronouns and limited and omniscient narrators were checked against the Wikipedia article Narration, and the grade wordings against reading standard 6 for literature in the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, read October 13, 2026. Both samples are about made-up stories. Licence: own work