List Your Sources is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on recording where each piece of evidence came from, aligned to Common Core standard W.5.8. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with 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 6 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
List Your Sources
W.5.8
NameDate
Write on the lines. Use the checklist.
1.Write for twenty minutes without stopping on a topic you have researched.
I wrote for the whole time
I stayed on topic
I used evidence
I wrote a conclusion
2.Plan a piece across a week: research, draft, revise, edit. Set a goal for each stage.
I planned four stages
I set a goal for each
I said what each produces
I wrote a conclusion
LessonPrint · W.5.8 · Set 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — List Your Sources
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.Twenty minutes of sustained researched writing produced in one sitting.
2.A four-stage plan with a distinct goal and output for each stage.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to W.5.8 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.