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English · Stage 6

Two Viewpoints

Reading — read two texts on the same event and compare whose side each is told from, how each feels, and which words give the viewpoint away

✦ English📘 Stage 6 · S6⏱ ~12 min🧒 Ages 10–12★ Free to start
I can compare viewpoints across texts.
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Kavi Reads the Same Night Twice

Kavi opens two old books that both tell of the great wooden horse at Troy. One is a Greek song; the other is a Trojan memory. "They tell the very same night," Kavi hoots, "but they do not feel the same at all!" The Greeks sing of a glorious trick; the Trojans grieve a cruel loss. "When two texts cover one event," Kavi says, "I can compare their viewpoints. I ask three things: whose side is telling it, what that side feels, and which words give the view away. The facts can match — but the side the writer takes changes everything."

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What your child will learn

1A viewpoint is whose eyes you look throughEvery text is told from someone's side. When two texts cover the same event, read each one through three questions. Tap each one to see what it means.
2The wooden horse, seen from both sidesBoth cards describe the very same night at Troy. Tap each one and notice how the feeling flips while the facts stay the same.
3Whose side · what feeling · which wordsYou can compare viewpoints only when two texts share an event. Then ask whose side tells it, how that side feels, and which words reveal the view.
4Sort each line by the side it takes
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A peek inside

Text A says, "Our brave plan finally won the war!" Text B says, "Their cruel plan destroyed our home." Both describe the wooden horse. Whose side is each text told from?
listen for 'we/our' and the feeling-words on each side

Try this at home: What does a text's 'viewpoint' mean?

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