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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. What happened to the stone of the church?
  2. 2. How long did the bell hang in a barn?
  3. 3. Summarise this poem.
  4. 4. Determine a theme of this poem and support it with details.
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. When did he tell the workforce?
  2. 2. Compare how Mr Whately sees himself with how others see him.
  3. 3. Determine a theme of this account and support it with details.
  4. 4. How long did Mr Whately put his own money into the mill?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 5 Text

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It was taken for walls and gateposts. 2. Eighty years. 3. 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. 4. A thing can outlive its purpose and find another — the bell rings for a school that does not know its age.
  2. 2.1. The day he could not pay them. 2. He sees a man doing arithmetic and holding on; others see cowardice and a failure to warn them. 3. The same decision looks different from inside — he calls arithmetic what others call cowardice. 4. Eleven 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.