Point of view worksheets

Each click picks one of the 23 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

Point of view is who tells the story. A character inside it says I. A narrator outside it says he, she, and names.

Seven grades, six different sets of passages: 7th and 8th grade share one. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.

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2nd grade

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Second grade point of view worksheets pair a short story with four questions: who is telling it, which words prove it, and how two characters feel about the same thing. Half the stories are told by a character who says I, and half by a narrator outside the story, so the same guess will not work twice.
3rd grade

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Third grade point of view worksheets pair a story with questions that ask who is telling it, which words prove it, and whose thoughts the narrator can share. First-person and third-person passages are mixed, so the answer is never automatic.
4th grade Core grade

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Each click picks one of the 23 passages written for this grade. Every sheet comes with its answer key. You don't need to sign up.

Fourth grade passages use their point of view on purpose: a first-person narrator who misunderstands what he overhears, an outside narrator who knows two characters' secrets at once. Questions ask what each kind of teller can and cannot know.
5th grade

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Fifth grade questions turn to why: why did the author pick this narrator, what would be lost with a different one, and what does the reader know that a character does not. Point of view becomes a tool to notice, which is how strong readers actually read.
6th grade

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Sixth grade point of view worksheets ask how the author builds the teller, not just who it is: a narrator who reports only what she can see, a child who misses what the reader catches, an outside voice that knows three minds or refuses to enter any. Questions ask what the narrator can and cannot know, and why the author wanted it that way.
7th grade

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Seventh grade point of view worksheets put two viewpoints side by side: a narrator and a character who read the same moment differently, a story told in two voices, a teller whose version the story quietly corrects. Questions ask how the author builds each view and where the views clash.
8th grade

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Eighth grade point of view is about the gap between what a character knows and what the reader knows. When the reader is ahead, that is dramatic irony, and it turns an ordinary scene tense or funny. Questions ask what the reader knows, who doesn't, and what the gap does to the scene.