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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 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. Determine a theme of this poem and support it with details.
  3. 3. How long did the bell hang in a barn?
  4. 4. When does the bell ring now?
2.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. Summarise this poem.
  2. 2. What three objects did the family keep?
  3. 3. What does the speaker still do every time?
  4. 4. Why was the piano given to a school?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 5 Text

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. 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. A thing can outlive its purpose and find another — the bell rings for a school that does not know its age. 3. Eighty years. 4. At nine and at three.
  2. 2.1. A family keeps some useless things and gives away the valuable ones, and ten years later only an inherited habit still connects the speaker to the dead. 2. The table, the clock and a tin of buttons. 3. Turns the hall light off behind them. 4. Because none of them could play.

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