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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.

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 did Kemi tell her mother afterwards?
  2. 2. What did Mr Adeyemi offer instead?
  3. 3. Why does the story never say why Kemi would not perform?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Mr Whately's Account

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. 1. What did he do in 1979?
  2. 2. How long did Mr Whately put his own money into the mill?
  3. 3. When did he tell the workforce?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. That she had been in it. 2. Running the sound desk. 3. Because she refused to explain, and the story respects that rather than overriding her.
  2. 2.1. Sold his house and moved into the office above the weaving floor. 2. Eleven years. 3. The day he could not pay them.

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