How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on explaining what a narrator's position includes and omits, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 19 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 19 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling

RL.5.6

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account

We knew by the thread. You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke. So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind. I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out. He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.

1. Describe how this narrator's point of view shapes what is included.

2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What We Kept

Stanza one: We kept the table, which was too big, and the clock, which had never gone, and a tin of buttons nobody wanted, and the habit of turning lights off. Stanza two: We gave away the good chairs. We gave away the china, all of it. We gave away the piano to a school because none of us could play. Stanza three: Ten years on, I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street. But I turn the hall light off behind me every single time, and think of her.

1. Describe how the speaker's point of view shapes the poem.

LessonPrint · RL.5.6 · Set 9 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — How Viewpoint Shapes the Telling

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. Written from the weaving floor, so it gives the thread, the sister in Derby and the crate — and nothing of the accounts or the mortgage.
2.1. It moves from "we" who kept and gave away to the "I" who still turns the hall light off — a family decision becomes one memory.

More practice for RL.5.6

Show how the narrator's viewpoint shapes the way events are told.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.