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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 Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account

We knew by the thread. You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke. So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind. I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out. He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.

  1. 1. Quote the exchange that closes the account.
  2. 2. What single image would represent this account, and why?
  3. 3. Quote accurately the words in which Ivy states her grievance.

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Answer key — Choosing the Representative Image

Set 5. 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. "Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say." 2. A broken thread on a loom — it is how they knew, and what the mill came to. 3. "What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind."

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