How the Stanzas Fit Together is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on matching each part of a poem to the job it does in the whole, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.5. 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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 21 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
How the Stanzas Fit Together
RL.5.5
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Write the letter of the match next to each one.
1.Write the letter of the job each part does in a poem.
The opening stanza
A line break
The final stanza
A middle stanza
A.brings the poem's ideas to a close
B.introduces the speaker and the scene
C.develops the idea with a new detail
D.ends a line early to make the reader pause
2.Write the letter of the job each part does in a poem.
The turn
A rhyme scheme
A list stanza
A stanza break
A.piles up items to build a picture
B.the point where the mood or argument changes
C.a blank line that marks a shift in idea
D.the pattern of rhymes that links the lines
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Answer key — How the Stanzas Fit Together
Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The opening stanza — B (introduces the speaker and the scene) 2. A line break — D (ends a line early to make the reader pause) 3. The final stanza — A (brings the poem's ideas to a close) 4. A middle stanza — C (develops the idea with a new detail)
2.1. The turn — B (the point where the mood or argument changes) 2. A rhyme scheme — D (the pattern of rhymes that links the lines) 3. A list stanza — A (piles up items to build a picture) 4. A stanza break — C (a blank line that marks a shift in idea)
More practice for RL.5.5
Explain how the chapters or stanzas fit together into a whole.
Teaching this next? How Chapters Fit Together is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.