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TumbleTA | REGIONAL STANDARDS EDITION Diary of a Spider - His Point of View and Mine Minnesota | Grade 3
TEACHES
3.2.2.2
CURRENT FRAMEWORK
2020 Minnesota K–12 Academic Standards in English Language Arts
STANDARD
Write to compare personal perspectives and identities to those of a character in a literary text or a human subject in an informational text.
WHY THIS FROZEN LESSON EARNS TEACHES
Students state Spider narrator perspective, their own perspective on the same event, cite evidence, and explain the difference.
INTEGRITY RULE
The regional standard is additive. The two lesson pages that follow are the frozen V5 lesson and have not been rewritten to obtain this standards match.
Standards-first production package | final 60-region audit | September 9, 2026 TumbleTA · Standards-First Short Lesson · Grade 3
Diary of a Spider His Point of View and Mine
20 MINUTES
TARGET
Distinguish the narrator’s point of view from the reader’s own point of view.
STUDENT PRODUCT
Spider view + evidence from the vacuum-drill entry + reader view + difference sentence.
LESSON SEQUENCE
- 1.Use the vacuum drill Reread the safety-drill entry only. Name the familiar school structure:
students practise for a danger.
- 2.Spider’s point of view Record the spider-specific danger: the vacuum cleaner. Note that Spider
panics/trembles while treating the drill as normal school life.
- 3.Reader’s point of view Students state how a human child would view a vacuum cleaner in a
classroom and why that differs from Spider’s view.
- 4.Name the difference Finish: Spider sees the vacuum as ___, while I see it as ___ because ___.
ASSESSMENT · LOOK FOR
- Uses the vacuum-drill entry, not a free-choice event.
- States Spider’s point of view with evidence from the entry.
- States a distinct reader view and explains the difference.
Standards-first rule: freeze the lesson after QA. Add a regional code only when the complete local expectation is actually satisfied.
TumbleTA · Student Evidence · Grade 3
Diary of a Spider
His Point of View and Mine Name ________________________________ Date __________________
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VACUUM DRILL — what does Spider think/feel about it?
Evidence from the entry: vacuum / panic / tremble / drill detail
How would I view a vacuum cleaner in a classroom?
Spider sees the vacuum as __________, while I see it as __________ because...
This student page is part of the frozen standards-first lesson. Complete the evidence shown here; do not substitute a different task to fit a standard.
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