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 18 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 wish I had asked her sooner, Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped, The king wept for the first time in his life, I thought the test was easy until question six
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: He climbed for a day without hearing her, Nobody told me the bus had gone, My brother still says I started it, Maya smiled but inside she was furious
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, She opened the letter with shaking hands, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, Our team lost and I blamed myself
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 18 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 2. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 3. Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped — Third-person narrator 4. The king wept for the first time in his life — Third-person narrator
2.1. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 2. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator 3. My brother still says I started it — First-person narrator 4. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-person narrator
3.1. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 2. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — 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
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.