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Quote Accurately is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on quoting the exact words that support an answer, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.1. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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.

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Quote Accurately

RL.5.1

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account

We knew by the thread. You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke. So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind. I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out. He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.

  1. 1. Quote the exchange that closes the account.
  2. 2. Quote accurately the words in which Ivy states her grievance.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Orpheus Looks Back

Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen. When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept. The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light. He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word. Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round. She was there. That was the last he saw of her.

  1. 1. Quote the words that show what he had to go on.
  2. 2. Quote accurately the phrase that shows how extraordinary his playing was.

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Answer key — Quote Accurately

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say." 2. "What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind."
  2. 2.1. "he had only the king's word". 2. "rivers changed course to listen".

More practice for RL.5.1

Quote the text exactly when explaining what it says and what it implies.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.