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 2 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 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?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
One Glove
Maya found one green glove on the wall by the bus stop. It was small, so it belonged to a child.
She could not just leave it. She pinned a note to the wall: FOUND — ONE GREEN GLOVE. ASK AT NUMBER 12.
For three days nobody came. On the fourth day a boy knocked. He had the other green glove in his hand.
1. Who is telling this story?
LessonPrint · RL.1.6 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Priya's — how she loved the boots and did not want to give them up.
2.1. Somebody outside the story — it says "she" and "he", not "I".
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.