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 8 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: From where I stood the stage looked tiny, I thought the test was easy until question six, He climbed for a day without hearing her, Maya smiled but inside she was furious
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: Across town his sister was already packing, The twins each believed the other had the key, Nobody told me the bus had gone, Our team lost and I blamed myself
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I wish I had asked her sooner, She opened the letter with shaking hands, I knew by the thread that something was wrong, Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-person narrator
2.1. Across town his sister was already packing — 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. The twins each believed the other had the key — Third-person narrator
3.1. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 2. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 3. She opened the letter with shaking hands — Third-person narrator 4. Their mother wondered why she had not been on stage — 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.