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Reading a Grade 5 Text is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on reading a whole Grade 5 text and answering across it, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.10. 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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Reading a Grade 5 Text

RL.5.10

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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. Compare Ivy's view of her own choices with her view of Whately's.
  2. 2. Determine a theme of this account and support it with details.
  3. 3. What told the workers something was wrong?
  4. 4. How long had Ivy worked a loom?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Mr Whately's Account

I did not close the mill. The mill closed. For eleven years I put my own money in. In 1979 I sold my house and moved into the office above the weaving floor, and nobody knew that but my accountant. People say I should have told them earlier. I have thought about that more than they have. If I had said in January that we might not last the year, half the workforce would have left by February, and then we certainly would not have. I held on until the day I could not pay them. Then I told them. I have been told this was cowardice. I would call it arithmetic.

  1. 1. Determine a theme of this account and support it with details.
  2. 2. What did he do in 1979?
  3. 3. How long did Mr Whately put his own money into the mill?
  4. 4. When did he tell the workforce?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 5 Text

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  1. 1.1. She admits she could have been looking and turned down Derby; her complaint is not that he failed, but that he withheld the timing. 2. Being kept from information takes away the chance to act — she could have taken Derby if she had known how long she had. 3. The good cotton stopped coming and the cheap thread broke. 4. Twenty-two years.
  2. 2.1. The same decision looks different from inside — he calls arithmetic what others call cowardice. 2. Sold his house and moved into the office above the weaving floor. 3. Eleven years. 4. The day he could not pay them.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.