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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.

Orpheus Looks Back

Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen. When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept. The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light. He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word. Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round. She was there. That was the last he saw of her.

  1. 1. What was the king's condition?
  2. 2. Why did the king make that particular condition?
  3. 3. How close to the daylight was he when he turned?
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. What was the rule?
  2. 2. Why does the story never say why Kemi would not perform?
  3. 3. What did Mr Adeyemi offer instead?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. That Orpheus must not look back until both of them stood in the light. 2. The myth does not say, but it is a condition his gift could not help him with. 3. Ten paces.
  2. 2.1. Everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly. 2. Because she refused to explain, and the story respects that rather than overriding her. 3. Running the sound desk.

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