Report on a Topic is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on reporting with facts and details that support the theme, aligned to Common Core standard SL.5.4. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with 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.
Set 15 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Report on a Topic
SL.5.4
NameDate
Write on the lines. Use the checklist.
1.Summarise a text you have read in exactly fifty words.
I summarised it
I kept to fifty words
I kept the main ideas
I paraphrased, not copied
2.Write the opening paragraph of a report three different ways and say which works best.
I wrote three openings
I compared them
I chose one
I explained why
LessonPrint · SL.5.4 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Report on a Topic
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.A fifty-word summary preserving the main ideas in the writer's own words.
2.Three genuinely different openings with a reasoned choice between them.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.5.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.