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 24 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 makes a claim with no reason. Say: "I heard the claim, but not the ___ behind it."
Choose: weather · music · reasoning
2.A speaker gives a number of visitors. Ask: "Is that number for each day or for each ___?"
Choose: color · sound · year
3.A speaker quotes a website. Ask: "Who ___ that website?"
Choose: eats · runs · sings
4.A speaker's evidence is twenty years old. Ask: "Is there more ___ evidence?"
Choose: recent · colorful · noisy
5.A speaker's example is from another country. Ask: "Does that example ___ to our town?"
Choose: sing · swim · apply
6.Summing up a talk: "Your first claim was supported by the survey, and your ___ claim by the interview."