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 4 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: Our team lost and I blamed myself, Across town his sister was already packing, Nobody told me the bus had gone, Nobody told Leo the bus had gone
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: My brother still says I started it, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk, Maya smiled but inside she was furious, I could not see who had shouted
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I thought the test was easy until question six, He climbed for a day without hearing her, The twins each believed the other had the key, From where I stood the stage looked tiny
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. Nobody told Leo the bus had gone — Third-person narrator 3. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-person narrator 4. Our team lost and I blamed myself — First-person narrator
2.1. I could not see who had shouted — First-person narrator 2. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-person narrator 3. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator 4. My brother still says I started it — First-person narrator
3.1. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — First-person narrator 2. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 3. I thought the test was easy until question six — 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.
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