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 13 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
NameDate
Sort each one into the right box.
1.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Our team lost and I blamed myself, Maya smiled but inside she was furious, Nobody told me the bus had gone, Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Across town his sister was already packing, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, She opened the letter with shaking hands, We never found out why he left
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I thought the test was easy until question six, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, He climbed for a day without hearing her, My brother still says I started it
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator 2. Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped — Third-person narrator 3. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-person narrator 4. Our team lost and I blamed myself — First-person narrator
2.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — 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. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 2. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 3. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-person narrator 4. My brother still says I started it — First-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.