Where the Last Part Changes It is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on explaining how an ending reframes what came before, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 22 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.
22 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.
Where the Last Part Changes It
RL.5.5
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account
We knew by the thread.
You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke.
So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind.
I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out.
He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.
1. How does the last line change the account?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Orpheus Looks Back
Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen.
When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept.
The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light.
He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word.
Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round.
She was there. That was the last he saw of her.
1. Explain how the last two lines fit with what comes before.
LessonPrint · RL.5.5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Where the Last Part Changes It
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. "That was the answer, really" turns a refusal to answer into the answer she needed.
2.1. The whole myth builds a journey; the last two lines undo it in eight words.
Questions about Where the Last Part Changes It
What does the Where the Last Part Changes It worksheet cover?
It practises explaining how an ending reframes what came before — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RL.5.5: Explain how the chapters or stanzas fit together into a whole. 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 Where the Last Part Changes It practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5 — RL.5.5, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Where the Last Part Changes It is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RL.5.5, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Where the Last Part Changes It 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 Where the Last Part Changes It can I print?
25 versions, of which 22 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 Where the Last Part Changes It free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Where the Last Part Changes It, 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.
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