Which Reasons Support Which Point is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on matching each piece of evidence to the claim it serves, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.8. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 20 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.
20 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.
Which Reasons Support Which Point
RI.5.8
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Why the Rails Are That Far Apart
Standard gauge is 4 feet 8½ inches. It is a strange number, and the reason is historical rather than engineering.
Early railways were built by people who had built tramways for collieries, and those had used the wheel spacing of the carts already in use. Nobody chose it; it was inherited.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel did choose. He built the Great Western at 7 feet ¼ inch, and by most measures it was better: faster, steadier, and able to carry more.
He lost anyway. By the 1840s, more of the network was already standard gauge, and a train cannot run on a track it does not fit. Parliament settled it in 1846.
Between 1846 and 1892 the Great Western converted its entire route. The final conversion took a single weekend and about four thousand men.
The best design does not always win. The one that connects to everything else does.
1. The text makes two claims. Identify which evidence supports which.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Two Plants, Two Histories
Tea and coffee are both leaves or seeds steeped in hot water, and both became national habits. How they got there could hardly be more different.
Tea came to Britain through a monopoly. The East India Company controlled the trade for nearly two centuries, and the government taxed it so heavily that by the 1770s most tea drunk in Britain had been smuggled. When the tax was cut in 1784, smuggling collapsed almost overnight.
Coffee spread through places rather than trade. The coffee house arrived in Britain in the 1650s and became somewhere to read newspapers and argue. Lloyd's of London and the London Stock Exchange both began in one.
Tea won the home; coffee won the meeting.
Neither plant grows in Britain. Both habits are entirely imported, and both are now so ordinary that they are thought of as native.
1. The text makes two claims about how each drink spread. Identify the evidence for each.
LessonPrint · RI.5.8 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Which Reasons Support Which Point
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. That the gauge was inherited — the colliery carts. That compatibility wins — the 1846 Act and the conversion of the whole Great Western.
2.1. Tea: the East India Company monopoly, the tax and the smuggling. Coffee: the coffee house, and the institutions founded in them.
Questions about Which Reasons Support Which Point
What does the Which Reasons Support Which Point worksheet cover?
It practises matching each piece of evidence to the claim it serves — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RI.5.8: Match each reason and piece of evidence to the point it supports. 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 Which Reasons Support Which Point practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.8 — RI.5.8, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Which Reasons Support Which Point is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RI.5.8, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Which Reasons Support Which Point 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 Which Reasons Support Which Point can I print?
25 versions, of which 20 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 Which Reasons Support Which Point free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Which Reasons Support Which Point, 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.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.5.8?
Yes — “Which Evidence Supports Which Point” is a 40-minute Grade 5 plan for RI.5.8, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. Which Reasons Support Which Point is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RI.5.8
Match each reason and piece of evidence to the point it supports.