Holling's Reading Workshop: Hearing

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Reading Workshop: Perspective
In a book you are reading this year, tell the perspective or point of view. Whose voice am I hearing? Whose story am I learning about? Briefly explain an event in the story; just like it is in the book, from the narrator’s perspective.
Whose voice am I hearing? Holling’s
Whose story am I learning about? Holling’s

Event from the story from the narrator’s perspective: Again I ran through the woods, pine smell thick in the air on my last lap

Explain the same event from the story using another character’s perspective. Think of yourself as the other character and write as if you are writing in your journal about that same event in the book.
The other character is: Mrs Baker watching nervously to see if Holling

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