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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.

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Choosing the Representative Image

RL.5.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. 1. Quote accurately the item in the first stanza that is not an object.
  2. 2. What single image would represent this poem?
  3. 3. Quote the line that shows the given-away things are forgotten.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Refusal

The rule was that everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly. Kemi told Mr Adeyemi she would not. Not could not — would not. He asked why. She said that if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision. He could have made her. Instead he asked whether she would run the sound desk, which nobody had volunteered for and which meant she would be there for every rehearsal. She said yes. At the assembly she was at the back, in the dark, and every cue was perfect. Her mother asked afterwards why she had not been in it. Kemi said she had been.

  1. 1. Quote the words in which Kemi refuses to explain.
  2. 2. What single image would represent this story?
  3. 3. Quote accurately the distinction Kemi draws in the second paragraph.

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Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "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".
  2. 2.1. "if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision." 2. Kemi at the sound desk in the dark at the back of the hall. 3. "Not could not — would not."

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.