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 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 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.
The Jar of Shells
Every summer, Ivy filled a jar with shells from the beach. The jar sat on her windowsill all winter.
One day her little brother knocked the jar off the sill. It did not break, but the shells rolled everywhere. Ivy felt hot and cross. Then she saw that Ben was crying.
"It was an accident," she said. "Help me find them." They crawled under the bed together. They found every shell but one.
1. Who is telling this story — Ivy, or somebody outside the story?
2.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?
LessonPrint · RL.1.6 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Somebody outside the story, because it says "she" and not "I".
2.1. Somebody outside the story, talking about Omar and Grandpa as "he".
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.