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What Each Text Contributes is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on identifying what a second text adds to the first, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.9. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students 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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What Each Text Contributes

RI.5.9

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Circle the right answer.

1.Text 1 is an owner's account of closing his mill. Text 2 is a newspaper report of the same closure. What does Text 2 contribute?
  • A.The owner's reasons for selling his house
  • B.The owner's private feelings
  • C.Outside facts such as the union's view
2.Text 1 explains how tea became a habit at home. Text 2 explains how coffee houses became meeting places. What do they show together?
  • A.Both drinks were mostly smuggled
  • B.Both plants grow in Britain
  • C.The two drinks spread in different ways
3.Text 1 lists the years the Thames froze. Text 2 explains how Old London Bridge slowed the river. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.More freezing dates
  • B.A reason the river froze
  • C.A list of London bridges today
4.Text 1 lists the rules of a game. Text 2 is a video of the game being played. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.A longer list of rules
  • B.The history of the game
  • C.How the rules look in action
5.Text 1 shows that switching tasks wastes time. Text 2 shows that people do not notice the cost. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.How many tasks people do
  • B.Why people keep multitasking anyway
  • C.Proof that switching saves time
6.Text 1 says sleep helps memory. Text 2 reports that teenagers' body clocks shift later. What do they suggest together?
  • A.Memory has nothing to do with sleep
  • B.Teenagers need no sleep
  • C.Early school starts may harm teenagers' learning
7.Text 1 describes how vaccines work. Text 2 tells how Jenner tested cowpox in 1796. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.The history of the idea
  • B.Which vaccines exist today
  • C.How antibodies are made
8.Text 1 is a map of Britain's canals. Text 2 is a chart of canal profits falling after 1830. What does Text 2 add?
  • A.Where the canals ran
  • B.The names of canal boats
  • C.What happened to the canals over time

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Answer key — What Each Text Contributes

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Outside facts such as the union's view
  2. 2.The two drinks spread in different ways
  3. 3.A reason the river froze
  4. 4.How the rules look in action
  5. 5.Why people keep multitasking anyway
  6. 6.Early school starts may harm teenagers' learning
  7. 7.The history of the idea
  8. 8.What happened to the canals over time

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.5.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.