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 17 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: Across town his sister was already packing, I wish I had asked her sooner, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, Maya smiled but inside she was furious
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I thought the test was easy until question six, Our team lost and I blamed myself, Nobody told Leo the bus had gone, She opened the letter with shaking hands
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage, I could not see who had shouted, Nobody told me the bus had gone
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 3. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 4. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator
2.1. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 2. Nobody told Leo the bus had gone — Third-person narrator 3. Our team lost and I blamed myself — First-person narrator 4. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator
3.1. I could not see who had shouted — First-person narrator 2. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-person narrator 3. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-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.