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Summarise and Paraphrase is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on recording a source in your own words, aligned to Common Core standard W.5.8. 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 22 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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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.

Summarise and Paraphrase

W.5.8

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Answer key — Summarise and Paraphrase

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.A claim about how a character's point of view shapes the story, with evidence drawn from it.
  2. 2.Two structures compared with quoted evidence from each text.

More practice for W.5.8

Summarise and paraphrase from sources, and list them.

Teaching this next? Summarising, Paraphrasing and Citing is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to W.5.8 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.