Printable Point of View Worksheets

Printable point of view worksheets for 3rd through 5th grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 2 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as fill in the blank and sorting activities.

Targeted Practice by Skill

About Point of View

What this skill is

Point of view identifies who is telling the story: first-person (character narrator using I, me, we) or third-person (outside narrator using he, she, they).

When children learn it

Point of view is taught in 2nd through 5th grade, aligned to RL.2.6, RL.3.6, and RL.4.6.

Teaching Tips

  • Look at non-dialogue narrator pronouns to determine point of view.
  • Identify whether the narrator is a character participating in story events.

Common Mistakes

  • Confusing pronoun clues in dialogue quotes with the narrator point of view.
  • Swapping 1st person and 3rd person definitions.