Point of View Worksheets

Identifying the narrator's view point is an essential reading skill that is often assessed on standardized tests. Be sure to discuss the narrative perspective of each text that you introduce to your students. But first build your students' skills with these point of view worksheets. They will give your students ample practice with identifying the narrator's perspective in a variety of texts.

These worksheets cover first-person, second-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient modes of narration. They require students to explain their answers and sometimes highlight characters' thoughts. Many of these worksheets have online versions that can be completed on phones, tablets, and desktops. These Ereading Worksheets allow students to save, print, or email their scores and explanations as PDF files. Please comment below if you like them.

Looking for a point of view lesson? Here is a PowerPoint slide show covering the five narrative view points. It includes a practice activity with five questions at the end of the slide show. Check it out!

Here’s an awesome worksheet to give students practice with recognizing the narrator’s viewpoint. This is a 4-page worksheet with 19 more problems on narrator’s perspective. Students read the passages and determine the narrator’s perspective. Then they explain their answers and circling characters’ thoughts when the passage is narrated from third-person perspective. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 3-7.

Here’s another great point of view worksheet. This one has 4 pages and 19 questions. Students read each passage and identify the narrator’s perspective. Then they explain their answers, and circle characters’ thoughts. This is great for homework. It could be used as group work too. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 3-7.

Here's another point of view worksheet. Students read the passages, write the narrator’s point of view, and explain their answers. This one has 4 pages and 15 problems. Suggested reading level: Grade 4-8.

Here’s another point of view worksheet to give students more practice with narrator’s perspective. This 4-page point of view worksheet has 19 problems. Students read the passages and determine the narrator’s perspective based on text clues. Then they explain their answers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

This point of view worksheet is sure to delight students around the world. How can they resist reading each passage and determining the narrator’s viewpoint? They can’t help but to explain their answers. This 4-page worksheet features 19 irresistible passages to help students master point of view. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

This point of view worksheet has 15 more practice problems. In each problem students read a paragraph of text and determine whether the narrator’s perspective is first-person, second-person, or third-person. In this worksheet, they are asked to find just first, second, or third-person perspective, rather than to consider the objective, limited, and omniscient narrative modes. You could modify it pretty easily, however. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 3-7.

Here’s another helpful 4-page point of view worksheet with 19 problems. Students read the passages and identify the narrator’s perspective. Then they explain their answers and circle characters’ thoughts if the passage is narrated from third-person perspective. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

This point of view worksheet has 15 more practice problems. Students read each paragraph and determine whether the narrator is telling the story from first, second, or third-person perspective. Then they explain their answers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 2-6.

Here’s another 7 problem point of view worksheet. Students read the paragraphs and determine the narrator’s perspective: first, second, or third-person. Then they explain their answers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 2-6.

This worksheet has 8 paragraphs written from either first, second, or third-person perspective. Students determine the narrator’s perspective and explain their answers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 3-7.

This worksheet features 9 quirky passages. Students read each passage, identify the narrator’s viewpoint, and explain their answers. Students also circle character’s thoughts and feelings if it is a passage narrated from third-person perspective. This helps students master objective, limited, and omniscient modes. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

Here’s another double-sided point of view worksheet to help students master narrative perspective. Read the passages, identify the narrator’s viewpoint, and explain your answer. Don’t forget to circle characters’ thoughts if the passage is narrated from third-person perspective. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9.

Yet another double-sided point of view worksheet. Students read the passages, determine the viewpoint of the narrator, and explain their answers. Don’t forget to circle characters’ thoughts if the passage is narrated from third-person perspective. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

This viewpoint worksheet is a little bit longer than some of the others. It has two double-sided pages and 19 questions. I recommend using it for in-class practice. It will keep your students busy for a good amount of time, particularly if they are following the directions and circling characters’ thoughts when the passage is narrated from third-person perspective. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

This is the final point of view worksheet in my series. It has two double-sided pages and includes a total of 19 point of view problems. Students read the passages, determine the narrator’s perspective, and explain their answers. What a great way to review point of view! Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8.

Looking for a way to quickly assess how well students can identify the narrator’s perspective? Check out this point of view quiz. This quiz answer 15 multiple-choice questions. Students read passages and determine the narrator’s perspective. They also match terms to definitions.

Here's another point of view quiz that you can use to quickly assess how well students can identify the narrator's perspective. This quiz features 15 more multiple-choice questions. Students read passages and determine the narrator's point of view and the mode of narration. They also match terms to definitions.

Here's yet another 15 question point of view quiz. Students read the passages and determine whether each is narrated from 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person perspective. It does not cover modes of narration like omniscient, limited, or objective. This might make it more appropriate for younger students or students who are still developing their skills.

Students blast their way across the Universe while answering HUNDREDS of questions about point of view in this classic arcade-style shooter. Collect cool power-ups and outmaneuver over 20 different types of enemies. When students get hit, they must answer a question about point of view to proceed. In the early levels, students are quizzed on first, second, and third-person narration. In the later levels, students must distinguish between objective, limited, and omniscient narrative modes. What a fun way to master point of view.

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Point of View
Common Core State Standards

RL.K.6 - With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
RL.1.6 - Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
RL.2.6 - Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
RL.3.6 - Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
RL.4.6 - Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
RL.5.6 - Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
RL.6.6 - Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
RL.7.6 - Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
RL.8.6 - Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
RL.9-10.6 - Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
RL.11-12.6 - Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

RI.3.6 - Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
RI.4.6 - Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.
RI.6.6 - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
RI.7.6 - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
RI.8.6 - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
RI.9-10.6 - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
RI.11-12.6 - Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.