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 9 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, Maya smiled but inside she was furious, I could not see who had shouted, Our team lost and I blamed myself
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
2.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: I thought the test was easy until question six, The king wept for the first time in his life, Across town his sister was already packing, I knew by the thread that something was wrong
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
3.Sort each one: First-person narrator or Third-person narrator?
Sort: He climbed for a day without hearing her, I wish I had asked her sooner, The twins each believed the other had the key, We never found out why he left
First-person narratorThird-person narrator
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. I could not see who had shouted — First-person narrator 2. Maya smiled but inside she was furious — Third-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. Across town his sister was already packing — Third-person narrator 2. I knew by the thread that something was wrong — First-person narrator 3. I thought the test was easy until question six — First-person narrator 4. The king wept for the first time in his life — Third-person narrator
3.1. He climbed for a day without hearing her — Third-person narrator 2. I wish I had asked her sooner — First-person narrator 3. The twins each believed the other had the key — 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.