Choosing the Representative Image is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on identifying the image that carries a text's meaning, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
I did not close the mill. The mill closed.
For eleven years I put my own money in. In 1979 I sold my house and moved into the office above the weaving floor, and nobody knew that but my accountant.
People say I should have told them earlier. I have thought about that more than they have. If I had said in January that we might not last the year, half the workforce would have left by February, and then we certainly would not have.
I held on until the day I could not pay them. Then I told them. I have been told this was cowardice. I would call it arithmetic.
1. What single image would represent this account, and why?
2. Quote accurately the words in which he defends his silence.
3. Quote the phrase in which he names what he has been accused of.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
What We Kept
Stanza one:
We kept the table, which was too big,
and the clock, which had never gone,
and a tin of buttons nobody wanted,
and the habit of turning lights off.
Stanza two:
We gave away the good chairs.
We gave away the china, all of it.
We gave away the piano to a school
because none of us could play.
Stanza three:
Ten years on, I would not know the chairs
if I saw them in a window on a street.
But I turn the hall light off behind me
every single time, and think of her.
1. Quote accurately the item in the first stanza that is not an object.
2. What single image would represent this poem?
3. Quote the line that shows the given-away things are forgotten.
LessonPrint · RL.5.7 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The lit office window above a dark weaving floor — he is inside it alone. 2. "If I had said in January that we might not last the year, half the workforce would have left by February, and then we certainly would not have." 3. "I have been told this was cowardice."
2.1. "the habit of turning lights off". 2. A hand on a hall light switch. 3. "I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street".
Questions about Choosing the Representative Image
What does the Choosing the Representative Image worksheet cover?
It practises identifying the image that carries a text's meaning — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RL.5.7: Analyse what the visuals add to a graphic novel or multimedia text. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Choosing the Representative Image practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 — RL.5.7, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Choosing the Representative Image is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RL.5.7, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Choosing the Representative Image come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Choosing the Representative Image can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Choosing the Representative Image free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Choosing the Representative Image, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RL.5.7
Analyse what the visuals add to a graphic novel or multimedia text.