Question the Support is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on asking whether evidence actually supports the claim, aligned to Common Core standard SL.5.3. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with 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 13 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two students have the same paper in front of them.
Question the Support
SL.5.3
NameDate
Finish each sentence.
1.A speaker gives a number of visitors. Ask: "Is that number for each day or for each ___?"
Choose: color · sound · year
2.Two things happened at once, and a speaker says one caused the other. Ask: "Could something ___ have caused it?"
Choose: never · else · ever
3.A speaker's evidence is twenty years old. Ask: "Is there more ___ evidence?"
Choose: recent · colorful · noisy
4.A speaker makes a claim with no reason. Say: "I heard the claim, but not the ___ behind it."
Choose: weather · music · reasoning
5.A speaker quotes a website. Ask: "Who ___ that website?"
Choose: eats · runs · sings
6.A speaker cites one study. Ask: "Have other studies ___ the same thing?"
Choose: painted · found · eaten
7.A speaker gives a percentage. Ask: "Out of how ___ people?"
Choose: many · much · more
LessonPrint · SL.5.3 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Question the Support
Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.
1.year
2.else
3.recent
4.reasoning
5.runs
6.found
7.many
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.5.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.