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 21 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: Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage, My brother still says I started it, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, Nobody told me the bus had gone
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: My hands shook as I opened the letter, Across town his sister was already packing, Our team lost and I blamed myself, The king wept for the first time in his life
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Maya smiled but inside she was furious, The twins each believed the other had the key, I wish I had asked her sooner, From where I stood the stage looked tiny
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-person narrator 2. My brother still says I started it — First-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
2.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. My hands shook as I opened the letter — First-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. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — First-person narrator 2. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 3. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — 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.
Teaching this next? How a Narrator Shapes Events is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.