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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.

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Integrate Several Texts

RI.5.9

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Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.

1.Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.

Text 1: What Sleep Is For

Sleep is not switching off. Parts of the brain are busier asleep than awake. Two claims are well supported. The first is that sleep consolidates memory: during deep sleep, the day's experiences are replayed and moved from short-term storage into long-term. Interrupt deep sleep and recall of the previous day drops measurably. The second is that sleep clears waste. The spaces between brain cells widen during sleep, and fluid washes through, removing proteins that build up while awake. A third claim — that a particular number of hours suits everybody — is not supported. Need varies with age and between individuals, and self-reported sleep is unreliable. Teenagers are a special case. Their body clocks genuinely shift later at puberty, which is a biological fact rather than a preference, and school start times mostly ignore it.

  1. 1. What happens to the spaces between brain cells during sleep?
2.Now read Text 2 and answer these questions about BOTH texts.

Text 2: Can You Do Two Things at Once?

People say they multitask. Mostly they do not. The brain can run two tasks together only if at least one is automatic. Walking and talking works because walking is automatic for an adult. Reading and listening to speech does not, because both need the same language system. What feels like multitasking is usually rapid switching. Each switch costs time — a fraction of a second to disengage and re-engage — and the costs add up. In experiments, people doing two tasks alternately take substantially longer in total than doing them one after the other, and make more errors. They also do not notice. Switching feels efficient because you are busy the whole time. The practical conclusion is unpopular but consistent: for anything demanding, doing one thing at a time is faster.

  1. 1. How does this text's structure differ from the one on canals?
  2. 2. How is this text's structure like the sleep text's?
  3. 3. What does this text share with the vaccine text?

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Answer key — Integrate Several Texts

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. They widen, and fluid washes through.
  2. 2.1. This weighs competing claims; that one narrates a technology being displaced. 2. Both weigh claims against evidence and reject one that is widely believed. 3. Both separate what the evidence supports from what people assume.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.5.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.