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 16 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 Blue Door
At the end of the lane stood a house with a blue door. Nobody had lived there for years. The grass grew as high as Tomas.
One Saturday a van pulled up. A woman got out with a ladder and a tin of paint. By teatime the blue door was bright yellow.
Tomas waved. The woman waved back. "I'm Nita," she called. "Come and see the garden when I've cut it."
1. Which words in the story are Nita's own?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Last Lap
Dee was fast. She won every race at sports day, and she knew it.
In the relay, she ran the last lap. Her team was behind. Dee ran so hard that her chest burned, but the other runner crossed the line first.
Dee sat on the grass. Her team came and sat with her. "You made up ten metres," said Ali. Dee had not thought about that. She had only thought about losing.
1. Whose thoughts does the story give us?
LessonPrint · RL.1.6 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. "I'm Nita" and "Come and see the garden when I've cut it."
2.1. Dee's — we are told she had only thought about losing.
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.