Activity 2 asks students to create a narrative using prompts like "I am a ______. I live in the ______." and to dictate and then read back their story. The skills list includes "Demonstrate a sense of story (beginning, middle, and end)" and the activity prompts students to tell what the animal would do and to read the story with support. These elements have students produce and read a story told from a specific (first-person) perspective.

The skills list explicitly includes "Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text." Students are directed to read two books aloud (Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt; Over and Under the Pond) and to answer comprehension questions about characters and how the writing in the two books is similar. Students also compare characters' adventures and experiences across the two books.

The Skills list explicitly includes "Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text." Activity 1 directs students to distinguish when the author tells the story versus when a character narrates and states that the boy in The Raft is telling the story himself. Students are asked to select two sentences containing the word "I" from the pages read, copy them, and underline "I" as evidence of first-person narration. Students are also asked to search other picture books to find two stories where a character tells his or her own story and to compare narrators between The Raft and What Do You Do With a Problem?.