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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.

What We Kept

Stanza one: We kept the table, which was too big, and the clock, which had never gone, and a tin of buttons nobody wanted, and the habit of turning lights off. Stanza two: We gave away the good chairs. We gave away the china, all of it. We gave away the piano to a school because none of us could play. Stanza three: Ten years on, I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street. But I turn the hall light off behind me every single time, and think of her.

  1. 1. Why was the piano given to a school?
  2. 2. What does the speaker still do every time?
  3. 3. Quote accurately the item in the first stanza that is not an object.
  4. 4. What three objects did the family keep?
2.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. What was the rule?
  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.

LessonPrint · RF.5.4 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Read Closely and Quote

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Because none of them could play. 2. Turns the hall light off behind them. 3. "the habit of turning lights off". 4. The table, the clock and a tin of buttons.
  2. 2.1. Everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly. 2. Running the sound desk. 3. That she had been in it. 4. "Not could not — would not."

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