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Infer from the Evidence is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on choosing the conclusion a quoted piece of evidence supports, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.1. It prints 8 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.

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Infer from the Evidence

RI.5.1

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Circle the right answer.

1.A text says: "Self-reported sleep is unreliable." What can you infer about sleep research?
  • A.People always remember their sleep correctly
  • B.Researchers need to measure sleep rather than just ask
  • C.Everyone needs exactly eight hours
2.A text says: "By the 1770s most tea drunk in Britain had been smuggled." What can you infer about the tax?
  • A.It applied only to coffee
  • B.It was too low to matter
  • C.It was too high for most buyers to pay
3.A text says: "Canal companies were bought by railway companies, sometimes in order to close them." What can you infer?
  • A.Railway owners wanted more boats
  • B.Canals earned more than railways
  • C.Railways saw canals as competition
4.A text says: "Walking and talking works because walking is automatic for an adult." What can you infer about a toddler?
  • A.A toddler may find walking and talking at once harder
  • B.Adults find walking difficult
  • C.A toddler cannot talk at all
5.A text says: "The final conversion took a single weekend and about four thousand men." What can you infer?
  • A.The conversion happened by accident
  • B.Nobody worked on the railway
  • C.The work had been carefully planned
6.A text says teenagers' body clocks shift later and "school start times mostly ignore it." What can you infer?
  • A.Body clocks never change
  • B.Many teenagers may be tired in early lessons
  • C.Teenagers prefer early starts
7.A text says: "Milkmaids were known not to catch smallpox." What did Jenner infer?
  • A.Smallpox only affected cattle
  • B.Milk cures every disease
  • C.Something in their work was protecting them
8.A text says: "The coffee house became somewhere to read newspapers and argue." What can you infer?
  • A.Coffee houses were places to share news and ideas
  • B.Newspapers were banned there
  • C.Coffee houses were kept silent

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Answer key — Infer from the Evidence

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  1. 1.Researchers need to measure sleep rather than just ask
  2. 2.It was too high for most buyers to pay
  3. 3.Railways saw canals as competition
  4. 4.A toddler may find walking and talking at once harder
  5. 5.The work had been carefully planned
  6. 6.Many teenagers may be tired in early lessons
  7. 7.Something in their work was protecting them
  8. 8.Coffee houses were places to share news and ideas

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.5.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.