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 20 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.
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 Wobbly Tooth
Ravi had a wobbly tooth. He pushed it with his tongue all through lunch. It hurt a little, and he did not want to eat.
His friend Nell sat down beside him. "Mine came out last week," she said. "It only wobbles for a few days."
Ravi felt better. He ate his sandwich on the other side of his mouth. That night the tooth came out on his pillow.
1. Whose thoughts do we hear in this story?
LessonPrint · RL.1.6 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Somebody outside the story, talking about Omar and Grandpa as "he".
2.1. Ravi's — we are told how he felt.
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.