How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on sorting sentences by the point of view of the narrator telling them, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.6. It prints 3 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.
Set 10 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
RL.5.6
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Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I knew by the thread that something was wrong, Nobody told me the bus had gone, He climbed for a day without hearing her, Maya smiled but inside she was furious
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: She opened the letter with shaking hands, My brother still says I started it, We never found out why he left, Across town his sister was already packing
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I wish I had asked her sooner, I thought the test was easy until question six, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 10 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 2. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 3. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator 4. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-person narrator
2.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. My brother still says I started it — First-person narrator 3. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator 4. We never found out why he left — First-person narrator
3.1. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 2. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 3. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-person narrator 4. Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage — Third-person narrator
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.