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 25 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: Nobody told Leo the bus had gone, Our team lost and I blamed myself, From where I stood the stage looked tiny, Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped, We never found out why he left, He climbed for a day without hearing her, I thought the test was easy until question six
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, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, My brother still says I started it, Nobody told me the bus had gone
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 25 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — 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. Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage — Third-person narrator
2.1. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 2. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 3. Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped — Third-person narrator 4. We never found out why he left — First-person narrator
3.1. 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. 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.