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Explicit and Inferred is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on separating what is stated from what is implied, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.1. 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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Explicit and Inferred

RL.5.1

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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. Who is "her" in the last line?
  2. 2. What does the speaker still do every time?
  3. 3. Why was the piano given to a school?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Pandora

The gods made Pandora and gave her, between them, everything: beauty, skill, a voice, curiosity. They also gave her a jar, and told her not to open it. They did not say what was in it. She kept it for a long time. The story is usually told as though she opened it immediately. She did not. When she did lift the lid, out came sickness, hunger, grief and every trouble that has since been ordinary. She got the lid back on with one thing still inside. That thing was hope. And people have argued for three thousand years about whether keeping it in was a mercy or the cruellest part of all.

  1. 1. What was left inside the jar?
  2. 2. Why does the text mention that the gods did not say what was in it?
  3. 3. Were the gods explicit about what was inside?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The person who died and whose things were divided — never named. 2. Turns the hall light off behind them. 3. Because none of them could play.
  2. 2.1. Hope. 2. Because it shifts responsibility — she could not weigh a risk she was not told about. 3. No — they told her not to open it but did not say what was in it.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.