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 5 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: She opened the letter with shaking hands, Our team lost and I blamed myself, Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped, Nobody told me the bus had gone
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: The twins each believed the other had the key, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, The king wept for the first time in his life, From where I stood the stage looked tiny
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: My hands shook as I opened the letter, We never found out why he left, Nobody told Leo the bus had gone, Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 5 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Neither of them noticed the clock had stopped — Third-person narrator 2. Nobody told me the bus had gone — First-person narrator 3. Our team lost and I blamed myself — First-person narrator 4. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator
2.1. From where I stood the stage looked tiny — First-person narrator 2. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 3. The king wept for the first time in his life — Third-person narrator 4. The twins each believed the other had the key — Third-person narrator
3.1. Kemi sat in the dark at the sound desk — Third-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. We never found out why he left — 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.