How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on explaining what a narrator's position includes and omits, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 19 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
19 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.
How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
RL.5.6
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
What We Kept
Stanza one:
We kept the table, which was too big,
and the clock, which had never gone,
and a tin of buttons nobody wanted,
and the habit of turning lights off.
Stanza two:
We gave away the good chairs.
We gave away the china, all of it.
We gave away the piano to a school
because none of us could play.
Stanza three:
Ten years on, I would not know the chairs
if I saw them in a window on a street.
But I turn the hall light off behind me
every single time, and think of her.
1. Describe how the speaker's point of view shapes the poem.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account
We knew by the thread.
You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke.
So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind.
I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out.
He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.
1. Describe how this narrator's point of view shapes what is included.
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It moves from "we" who kept and gave away to the "I" who still turns the hall light off — a family decision becomes one memory.
2.1. Written from the weaving floor, so it gives the thread, the sister in Derby and the crate — and nothing of the accounts or the mortgage.
Questions about How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
What does the How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling worksheet cover?
It practises explaining what a narrator's position includes and omits — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RL.5.6: Show how the narrator's viewpoint shapes the way events are told. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 — RL.5.6, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RL.5.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling can I print?
25 versions, of which 19 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling free to print and photocopy?
Yes. How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RL.5.6?
Yes — “How a Narrator Shapes Events” is a 40-minute Grade 5 plan for RL.5.6, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RL.5.6
Show how the narrator's viewpoint shapes the way events are told.
Teaching this next? How a Narrator Shapes Events is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.