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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 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 did Kemi tell her mother afterwards?
  2. 2. Determine a theme of this story and support it with details.
  3. 3. What does the sound desk offer tell you about Mr Adeyemi?
  4. 4. Summarise this story.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Bell

Stanza one: The church has gone. They took the stone for walls and gateposts, load by load. Where the aisle was there is a field. Where the door was there is a road. Stanza two: The bell they could not sell or break. It hung in a barn for eighty years, green with the damp, out of the way, mute as a stone among the gears. Stanza three: Last spring they hung it in the school. It rings at nine and rings at three. The children do not know its age and ring it anyway, and it is free. Stanza four: So the building went, and the faith went, and the road runs where the door was cut, and still the sound the masons heard goes out at nine, and comes back, and stops.

  1. 1. Summarise this poem.
  2. 2. When does the bell ring now?
  3. 3. What happened to the stone of the church?
  4. 4. How long did the bell hang in a barn?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 5 Text

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. That she had been in it. 2. Taking part can be redefined rather than refused — she was at every rehearsal and every cue was perfect. 3. He looked for a way she could take part on her own terms instead of enforcing the rule. 4. Kemi refused to perform at the leavers' assembly, her teacher offered her the sound desk instead, and she ran it perfectly and counted herself as having taken part.
  2. 2.1. A church was demolished for its stone, its bell hung silent in a barn for eighty years, and now it rings for a school that knows nothing about it. 2. At nine and at three. 3. It was taken for walls and gateposts. 4. Eighty years.

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