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 20 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: Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage, Nobody told Leo the bus had gone, My hands shook as I opened the letter, 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: We never found out why he left, From where I stood the stage looked tiny, The twins each believed the other had the key, She opened the letter with shaking hands
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Nobody told me the bus had gone, My brother still says I started it, Across town his sister was already packing, He climbed for a day without hearing her
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 2. My hands shook as I opened the letter — First-person narrator 3. Nobody told Leo the bus had gone — Third-person narrator 4. Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage — Third-person narrator
2.1. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — First-person narrator 2. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator 3. The twins each believed the other had the key — Third-person narrator 4. We never found out why he left — First-person narrator
3.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. He climbed for a day without hearing her — 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
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.