Integrate Several Texts is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on using two texts together to write about a subject, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.9. 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Standard gauge is 4 feet 8½ inches. It is a strange number, and the reason is historical rather than engineering.
Early railways were built by people who had built tramways for collieries, and those had used the wheel spacing of the carts already in use. Nobody chose it; it was inherited.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel did choose. He built the Great Western at 7 feet ¼ inch, and by most measures it was better: faster, steadier, and able to carry more.
He lost anyway. By the 1840s, more of the network was already standard gauge, and a train cannot run on a track it does not fit. Parliament settled it in 1846.
Between 1846 and 1892 the Great Western converted its entire route. The final conversion took a single weekend and about four thousand men.
The best design does not always win. The one that connects to everything else does.
1. What gauge did Brunel choose?
2.Now read Text 2 and answer these questions about BOTH texts.
Text 2: What Happened to the Textile Towns
Between 1965 and 1990 the British textile industry lost roughly four fifths of its jobs.
Three causes are usually given, and they are not equally weighted.
Cost is the one most often cited. Spinning and weaving are labour-intensive, and wages in the countries that took the work were a fraction of British wages. This explains a great deal.
Investment matters too. Much British machinery dated from before the war. Where firms did re-equip — and some did — they survived longer, which suggests the cost argument is not the whole story.
The third cause is the hardest to see: the industry was concentrated. A car plant closing takes a town's largest employer; a mill closing often took its only one, along with the suppliers and the shops that depended on it.
That concentration is why the closures show up in the population figures of particular towns and not in national ones.
1. What does this text give that the mill accounts cannot?
2. What do the personal accounts give that this cannot?
3. How does this text's ending differ from the canal text's?
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Answer key — Integrate Several Texts
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 7 feet ¼ inch.
2.1. The national pattern — four fifths of jobs, and why the losses show in some towns and not in the country's figures. 2. The reasoning of one owner and the cost to one worker who turned down other work. 3. This states its general conclusion outright; the canal text ends on an observation about holidaymakers.
Questions about Integrate Several Texts
What does the Integrate Several Texts worksheet cover?
It practises using two texts together to write about a subject — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RI.5.9: Combine several texts on one topic into knowledgeable writing. The instruction to pupils is “Read Text 1 and answer the question under it”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Integrate Several Texts practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.9 — RI.5.9, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Integrate Several Texts is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RI.5.9, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Integrate Several Texts come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Integrate Several Texts can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Integrate Several Texts free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Integrate Several Texts, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.5.9?
Yes — “Integrating Several Texts on a Topic” is a 40-minute Grade 5 plan for RI.5.9, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Integrate Several Texts is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RI.5.9
Combine several texts on one topic into knowledgeable writing.