What Each Account Represents is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on identifying the point of view each account carries, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
23 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.
What Each Account Represents
RI.5.6
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.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. Describe how this narrator's point of view shapes what is included.
2. What do both accounts agree on?
3. How does this account differ from Ivy Sallow's?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Mill: The Local Paper, June 1980
Whately's Mill closed on Friday with the loss of 214 jobs, the largest single closure in the town since the war.
The mill had run since 1868. At its height it employed more than 600.
Mr Whately declined to say when he had known the closure was certain. The Chamber of Commerce has called for a public inquiry; the union has called the closure "predictable for two years".
The council says a retraining fund will open in September. Four other textile mills within twenty miles have closed since 1975.
Nobody the paper spoke to expected the site to be used for textiles again.
1. What does this report give that the two personal accounts cannot?
2. What do the personal accounts give that this cannot?
LessonPrint · RI.5.6 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Each Account Represents
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Written from inside the decision, so it gives his reasoning and his sacrifice, and the workers appear only as a risk of leaving. 2. That nobody was told until the day the wages could not be paid. 3. Whately explains why silence was necessary; Ivy describes what the silence cost her, including the work in Derby.
2.1. Totals, dates and the regional pattern — 214 jobs, 1868, four other mills. 2. Whately's reasoning behind the silence, and what it cost Ivy, who turned down work in Derby.
Questions about What Each Account Represents
What does the What Each Account Represents worksheet cover?
It practises identifying the point of view each account carries — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RI.5.6: Compare several accounts of one event and the viewpoints behind them. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does What Each Account Represents practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.6 — RI.5.6, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What Each Account Represents is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RI.5.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What Each Account Represents come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What Each Account Represents can I print?
25 versions, of which 23 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is What Each Account Represents free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What Each Account Represents, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RI.5.6
Compare several accounts of one event and the viewpoints behind them.