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Read Closely and Quote is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on reading a Grade 5 text well enough to quote it accurately, aligned to Common Core standard RF.5.4. 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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Read Closely and Quote

RF.5.4

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Refusal

The rule was that everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly. Kemi told Mr Adeyemi she would not. Not could not — would not. He asked why. She said that if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision. He could have made her. Instead he asked whether she would run the sound desk, which nobody had volunteered for and which meant she would be there for every rehearsal. She said yes. At the assembly she was at the back, in the dark, and every cue was perfect. Her mother asked afterwards why she had not been in it. Kemi said she had been.

  1. 1. Quote the words in which Kemi refuses to explain.
  2. 2. What did Mr Adeyemi offer instead?
  3. 3. What did Kemi tell her mother afterwards?
  4. 4. Quote accurately the distinction Kemi draws in the second paragraph.
2.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 accurately the words in which Ivy states her grievance.
  2. 2. Quote the exchange that closes the account.
  3. 3. How long had Ivy worked a loom?
  4. 4. What told the workers something was wrong?

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Answer key — Read Closely and Quote

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision." 2. Running the sound desk. 3. That she had been in it. 4. "Not could not — would not."
  2. 2.1. "What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind." 2. "Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say." 3. Twenty-two years. 4. The good cotton stopped coming and the cheap thread broke.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.5.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.