Text Evidence and Citations: Writing Skills for Class 5 

This Class 5 worksheet helps students learn how to find, select, and explain text evidence to support their answers. Using short passages, main ideas, and guided questions, the worksheet teaches young learners how to quote correctly, analyze meaning, and justify their responses with clear reasoning. These skills build a strong foundation for writing, reading comprehension, and future academic tasks.

Why Text Evidence Matters in Writing? 

Using evidence makes written answers stronger and more reliable. For Class 5 students, this topic is important because: 
1. It teaches them to locate information directly from a text. 
2. It improves critical thinking by helping them connect ideas with proof. 
3. It supports clear communication by encouraging complete, reasoned answers. 
4. It builds confidence in writing explanations and justifications.

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five structured exercises that help learners move from basic identification of evidence to deeper explanation and main-idea building.

Exercise 1 – Answer with Evidence 
Students read a short news report and answer three questions: identify the idea, select one exact sentence from the text as evidence, and explain how it supports the answer.

Exercise 2 – Choose the Best Evidence 
Students read a main idea and select three pieces of evidence from a list. They also write explanations for why each chosen evidence supports the main idea.

Exercise 3 – Explain Using Evidence 
Students read a short passage about a new reading room and answer a question with a complete explanation supported by text evidence.

Exercise 4 – Main Idea and Evidence 
Students read a passage on recycling and write the main idea along with two sentences from the text that support it.

Exercise 5 – Provide Evidence for Each Question 
Students read a passage about the library’s new reading room and answer three questions, each requiring one supporting evidence sentence.

Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 
1. What shows that the science fair had high participation? 
Answer: Over 200 students participated. 
Evidence: "Over 200 students displayed models, experiments, and inventions." 
Explanation: This shows high participation because 200 students is a large number.

2. Copy one sentence from the passage as evidence. 
Answer: "Judges praised the creativity shown by students from Grades 3–5."

3. Explain how this evidence supports your answer. 
Answer: It shows that students worked hard on their projects and impressed the judges.

Exercise 2 
Evidence 1: Students who read regularly learn many new words. 
Explanation: Learning new words improves language skills, which helps students become better learners.

Evidence 2: Reading helps improve focus and concentration. 
Explanation: Better focus helps students understand lessons more easily.

Evidence 3: Students who read often understand school lessons more easily. 
Explanation: This directly shows that reading helps students perform better academically.

Exercise 3 
Answer: The library created the new reading room to give students a quiet place to study. 
Proof: "The room was created to give students a quiet place to study." 
Explanation: The sentence clearly states the purpose of the new reading room.

Exercise 4 
Main Idea: Recycling helps protect the environment by reducing waste. 
Evidence Sentence 1: "Recycling helps reduce waste in landfills." 
Evidence Sentence 2: "Recycling plastic also keeps harmful materials out of oceans."

Exercise 5 
1. Why was the new reading room created? 
Answer: To help students find a quiet place to read and study. 
Evidence: "The new space was created to help students find a quiet place to read and study."

2. What makes a reading room comfortable for students? 
Answer: Bright lights, comfortable chairs, and new books. 
Evidence: "The room has bright lights, comfortable chairs, and shelves filled with new books."

3. How did parents respond to the new reading room? 
Answer: They praised the library’s efforts. 
Evidence: "Many parents attended the opening ceremony and praised the library’s efforts to support young learners."

Help your child build strong writing and reasoning skills with this Text Evidence worksheet for Class 5. 

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