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Different Characters, Different Views is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on recognizing that characters see events differently, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.6. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Different Characters, Different Views

RL.2.6

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Circle the right answer.

1.How can you tell which character is speaking?
  • A.The page number
  • B.The length of the sentence
  • C.The quotation marks and the words like "said Nana"
2.Words outside the quotation marks are usually whose?
  • A.The main character's
  • B.The narrator's
  • C.The reader's
3.Tess said "It's better in the pool anyway." What has changed?
  • A.She now agrees with Grandpa
  • B.She is still cross
  • C.She has taken it home
4.The mouse said she might help one day. What does she believe?
  • A.That the lion is weak
  • B.That she could be useful to the lion
  • C.That she can escape anyway
5.Nana said "You used the salt twice." Whose words are those?
  • A.Ada's
  • B.The narrator's
  • C.Nana's
6.Two characters argue. Does the story have to agree with one of them?
  • A.No — a story can show both views
  • B.Yes, always the last one
  • C.Yes, always the first one
7.Why might two characters describe the same day differently?
  • A.Because each one noticed and felt different things
  • B.Because stories are always wrong
  • C.Because one of them is lying
8.Grandpa said the starfish would die in a bucket. What does he think?
  • A.That the starfish belongs in the pool
  • B.That starfish cannot move
  • C.That Tess should have two

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Answer key — Different Characters, Different Views

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The quotation marks and the words like "said Nana"
  2. 2.The narrator's
  3. 3.She now agrees with Grandpa
  4. 4.That she could be useful to the lion
  5. 5.Nana's
  6. 6.No — a story can show both views
  7. 7.Because each one noticed and felt different things
  8. 8.That the starfish belongs in the pool

More practice for RL.2.6

Read dialogue in different voices, because the characters see things differently.

Teaching this next? Different Characters, Different Views is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.