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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 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. What told the workers something was wrong?
  2. 2. Why does Ivy say "I could have been looking"?
  3. 3. How long had Ivy worked a loom?
2.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. What three objects did the family keep?
  2. 2. Why was the piano given to a school?
  3. 3. What does the speaker still do every time?

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Answer key — Explicit and Inferred

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The good cotton stopped coming and the cheap thread broke. 2. She is accepting part of the responsibility, which makes the rest of her complaint stronger. 3. Twenty-two years.
  2. 2.1. The table, the clock and a tin of buttons. 2. Because none of them could play. 3. Turns the hall light off behind them.

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