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 3 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 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 3 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Is Telling the Story?
Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. "I'm Nita" and "Come and see the garden when I've cut it."
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.