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Which Feature Would Help? is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on choosing the text feature that would answer a question fastest, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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.

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Which Feature Would Help?

RI.5.7

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. 1. What would a photograph accompanying this report most usefully show?
  2. 2. How would a table help a reader of this report?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Why the Thames Froze

Between 1309 and 1814 the Thames froze hard enough to walk on at least twenty-four times. Since 1814 it has not once. The usual explanation is that the climate has warmed. That is part of it, and not most of it. Old London Bridge had nineteen arches on wide stone piers. The piers took up so much of the channel that the bridge acted as a weir, slowing the water upstream almost to a standstill. Still water freezes; moving water does not. The river was also shallower and wider then, spreading over land that has since been embanked. Shallow water loses heat faster. Old London Bridge was demolished in 1831. The embankments were built between 1862 and 1874. The river that flows through London now is narrower, deeper and faster than the one that froze — and it would not freeze in a colder winter than any of those.

  1. 1. What would a diagram for this text need to compare?
  2. 2. How would a diagram of Old London Bridge help a reader?

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Answer key — Which Feature Would Help?

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The mill gates on the Friday, with the 214 leaving. 2. It could set the five closures since 1975 against their dates and job losses.
  2. 2.1. The old wide shallow river with its many-piered bridge against the modern narrow, deep, embanked one. 2. It could show how much of the channel the nineteen piers blocked, which is the whole argument.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.5.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.