Who Is Telling the Story? is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on identifying the narrator and the characters' own words, aligned to Common Core standard RL.1.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 21 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
21 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Who Is Telling the Story?
RL.1.6
NameDate
Read the story, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Market Day
On Saturdays, Grandpa took Omar to the market. Omar carried the basket. Grandpa carried the money.
Omar's job was to pick the apples. He learned to press each one gently with his thumb. A soft spot meant the apple would be brown inside.
One week Grandpa let Omar carry the money instead. Omar counted the change twice. He got it right both times.
1. Who is telling this story?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Boots by the Door
Priya's boots were too small. Her toes pressed against the ends. But they were red, and she loved them.
For a week she said nothing. Then she could not run at playtime without it hurting.
She told her mum. Her mum did not laugh. They took the red boots to the charity shop and found a bigger pair, green this time. Priya kept the red ones by the door for a month before she let them go.
1. Whose feelings does this story tell us about?
LessonPrint · RL.1.6 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Somebody outside the story, talking about Omar and Grandpa as "he".
2.1. Priya's — how she loved the boots and did not want to give them up.
Questions about Who Is Telling the Story?
What does the Who Is Telling the Story? worksheet cover?
It practises identifying the narrator and the characters' own words — 2 questions for Grade 1, all on Common Core RL.1.6: Work out who is speaking at each point in the story. The instruction to pupils is “Read the story, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Who Is Telling the Story? practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 — RL.1.6, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 1. The published standard reads: “Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Who Is Telling the Story? is written for Grade 1, typically ages 6-7. It is one of the sheets on RL.1.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Who Is Telling the Story? come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Who Is Telling the Story? can I print?
25 versions, of which 21 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is Who Is Telling the Story? free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Who Is Telling the Story?, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.1.6?
Yes — “Who Is Telling the Story” is a 40-minute Grade 1 plan for RL.1.6, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Who Is Telling the Story? is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RL.1.6
Work out who is speaking at each point in the story.
Teaching this next? Who Is Telling the Story is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.