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Answer from the Sources is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on using a given text to answer a question, aligned to Common Core standard W.2.8. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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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Answer from the Sources

W.2.8

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Glass Is Recycled

Glass is unusual. It can be melted and remade for ever without getting any worse. Bottles are first sorted by colour. Clear, green and brown glass have to be kept apart, because you cannot make clear glass from green. The glass is then crushed into small pieces called cullet. Metal lids are pulled out with a magnet. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials glass is made from. That means recycling glass uses less energy than making it new. The melted glass is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles.

  1. 1. What happens to the melted glass at the end?
  2. 2. How are metal lids removed?
  3. 3. What is crushed glass called?
  4. 4. How would a caption under a photograph of cullet help?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Earthquakes

The Earth's crust is not one piece. It is broken into huge slabs called plates, and the plates are always moving — about as fast as your fingernails grow. Where two plates meet, they can catch on each other. Pressure builds up for years while they are stuck. When they finally slip, all that stored energy is released at once. The ground shakes. That shaking is an earthquake. Most earthquakes are too small to feel. A few are strong enough to bring down buildings, which is why new buildings in some places are made to sway.

  1. 1. How fast do the plates move?
  2. 2. What are the huge slabs of crust called?
  3. 3. What makes the ground shake?
  4. 4. The author says new buildings are made to sway. What reason is given?

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Answer key — Answer from the Sources

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles. 2. With a magnet. 3. Cullet. 4. It would name what the picture shows, so the new word is tied to the thing.
  2. 2.1. About as fast as your fingernails grow. 2. Plates. 3. Stored energy released when two stuck plates finally slip. 4. Because a few earthquakes are strong enough to bring buildings down.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to W.2.8 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.