Worksheet

Who Is Talking on Kite Day?

Grade 1 reading practice: tell who is speaking and who is telling the story in a short kite-day tale told by two children.

Grade 1ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.1.6

Play online Play as a game

PrintLetter-size worksheet Answer keyPrintable answers

Assign to classAssign to your classes, or get a join code

What’s included

Single worksheet
Auto-graded online
1 Common Core standard
Printable answer key
8 questions
Classroom-ready

Details

Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell which character is telling each part of a story.
Students tell which character speaks each line of dialogue.

How to use

Read the story aloud and pause at each "I am" sentence. Let students answer on their own, then talk about how they knew who was speaking.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.1.6

Tell who is speaking or telling the story at different points in a text.

Preview

OwlSheets.com

Name Date

Who Is Talking on Kite Day?

Find out who tells the story and who speaks.

Read the story

Read the story. Two children take turns telling it.

Kite Day on the Hill

1I am Mia. On a windy day, my brother Ben and I took our red kite to the hill. "Hold the string tight," I told him. "I will," said Ben. The kite jumped up, then it fell in the grass.

2I am Ben. I felt sad when our kite fell. Then Grandpa Joe walked over. "Try again," he said. "Run fast, and let out the string slowly," he told me. I ran across the hill, and our kite rose up, up, up.

3I am Mia. I clapped and clapped. "Look at it fly!" I shouted. "It is a happy kite," said Grandpa Joe. Ben smiled at me, and I smiled back.

Who is telling the story?

Think about who says "I" in each paragraph.

Who is telling each paragraph? Sort the paragraphs.

Paragraph 1Paragraph 2Paragraph 3

Mia is telling	Ben is telling

Read paragraph 2 again. Underline the sentence that tells you who is telling it.

I felt sad when our kite fell.I am Ben.Then Grandpa Joe walked over.I ran across the hill, and our kite rose up, up, up.

Why does paragraph 3 begin with "I am Mia"?

A. It shows that Mia is telling this part.
B. It shows that Ben is telling this part.
C. It shows that Grandpa Joe is telling this part.

Who is speaking?

A character speaks out loud inside quotation marks.

Who says each thing? Sort the words.

"Hold the string tight.""I will.""Try again.""Run fast, and let out the string slowly."

Mia	Ben	Grandpa Joe

In paragraph 3, who shouts "Look at it fly!"?

A. Grandpa Joe
B. Ben
C. Mia

In paragraph 3, the storyteller says, "Ben smiled at me." Who is "me"? Write the name.

"Me" is .

Some words are said out loud by a character. Other words are told by the storyteller. Sort each sentence.

"Hold the string tight."The kite jumped up, then it fell in the grass."It is a happy kite."I felt sad when our kite fell.Then Grandpa Joe walked over."Look at it fly!"