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 2 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: I could not see who had shouted, Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage, From where I stood the stage looked tiny, She opened the letter with shaking hands
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Our team lost and I blamed myself, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, The king wept for the first time in his life, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: The twins each believed the other had the key, I wish I had asked her sooner, I thought the test was easy until question six, Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — First-person narrator 2. I could not see who had shouted — First-person narrator 3. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator 4. Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage — Third-person narrator
2.1. 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. The king wept for the first time in his life — Third-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. Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped — Third-person narrator 4. The twins each believed the other had the key — Third-person narrator
More practice for RL.5.6
Show how the narrator's viewpoint shapes the way events are told.
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