How this resource helps
My View and the Story’s View develops North Carolina Grade 3 RL.3.6: distinguish the learner’s own viewpoint from a narrator’s or character’s viewpoint. This 104-page printable packet includes the complete published Sizwe’s Smile, 687 normalized words, with all 12 original illustrations. Learners express their own reading position while accurately identifying a supported story viewpoint and explaining the relationship. The complete story also appears in other Sizwe resources. These fresh tasks are not new readings or 60 unique scenes/viewpoints. Events and a narrowly modeled opening response recur in this selectable bank. MC examples supply hypothetical reader positions; they cannot establish the learner’s own view. All 30 open opportunities call for actual learner stance, with multiple legitimate positions accepted. Record prior story work, models, choices and support. No independent Grade 3 reading-band certification, guaranteed mastery or unseen-text transfer is claimed. Accept agreement, difference, qualification or explained uncertainty. Keys do not prescribe a correct personal opinion. No compulsory happiness, smiling, eye contact, gratitude, personal history, mood disclosure, public sharing or reenactment. No dog handling, road crossing or rain walks are assigned. Story magic and warmth are literary portrayal, not a smile cure or scientific weather cause; narrator speech does not prove author beliefs. Sizwe’s Smile. Written by Vianne Venter; illustrated by Genevieve Terblanche; designed by Lauren Rycroft. Originally published by Book Dash, Book Dash 2, Cape Town, June 2014; ISBN 978-0-9922358-4-0. Exact publisher-hosted English HTML: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/sizwes-smile/en/ . Story and art are Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Full text and 12 uncropped original illustrations retained; Book Dash logo visible. Original 685 whitespace words become 687 after restoring only two missing spaces in scene 10: closingher → closing her; book.“Aw → book. “Aw. Layout/line breaks normalized, scene locators, source image descriptions and original teaching material added. Art resized proportionally without cropping. Original Saint Pierre restrictions apply only to original additions, not CC source story/art; no additional restrictions or DRM may limit their licensed rights. No creator, publisher or NC DPI endorsement implied. NC 2017 RL.3.6 applies in 2026–27. Identifying pronouns or speakers alone is not the full target.
What’s Included
- 104-page printable PDF
- Complete Sizwe’s Smile: 687 normalized words
- 12 complete original illustrations and source image descriptions
- 30 four-option multiple-choice and 30 open-response opportunities
- Five daily targets and seven concrete teaching scripts
- Bounded viewpoint model and two organizers
- Grounded MC explanations, plural open-response examples and criteria
- Observation rubric/record, source credits, CC reuse and font notices
- 104 ordered SAMPLE store previews; not extra buyer downloads
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Grade 3
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts - Reading Literature · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 104 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Read the complete story with support before the selected 80-minute core: 8 warm-up, 12 model, 15 guided, 13 collaboration, 17 individual, 10 intervention, 5 exit. Select manageable work from the 60-task bank; extend or split for access and thinking. Not a one-session all-bank assignment.
- Answer key
- All 30 MC keys include grounded explanations; all 30 open tasks include plural possible reader positions and text-grounded criteria. Assess a supported narrator/character viewpoint, the learner’s own position and their clear relationship. Agreement can demonstrate the standard; difference is not mandatory. No fixed response length, exact quotation, partner, chart or revision requirement.
Standard or objective
RL.3.6