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Describe the Key Details is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on describing details from something presented orally, aligned to Common Core standard SL.2.2. 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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Describe the Key Details

SL.2.2

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Camel Survives

A camel can cross a desert that would kill most animals. Almost every part of it helps. Its hump is not full of water. It is full of fat. The camel uses the fat for energy when there is no food, which is why the hump sags on a hungry camel. A camel has two rows of long eyelashes and can close its nostrils. Both keep sand out during a storm. Its feet are wide and flat. They spread the camel's weight so it does not sink into soft sand. A thirsty camel can drink a hundred litres in ten minutes.

  1. 1. How does a camel keep sand out of its nose?
  2. 2. How much can a thirsty camel drink in ten minutes?
  3. 3. What is a camel's hump full of?
2.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 is crushed glass called?
  2. 2. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  3. 3. How are metal lids removed?

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Answer key — Describe the Key Details

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It can close its nostrils. 2. A hundred litres. 3. Fat, not water.
  2. 2.1. Cullet. 2. Glass bottles are sorted by colour, crushed into cullet, melted with less energy than raw materials, and blown into new bottles. 3. With a magnet.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.2.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.