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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 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. What is crushed glass called?
  3. 3. How are metal lids removed?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Polar Bear Stays Warm

A polar bear lives where the sea freezes. It has three ways of keeping its heat in. Under its skin is a layer of fat up to eleven centimetres thick. Fat is a poor conductor, so heat does not pass through it easily. Above that is dense underfur, packed tight so cold water cannot reach the skin. On top are long guard hairs. Each one is hollow and clear, not white. They look white because they scatter the light, the way snow does. A polar bear is so well insulated that it can overheat if it runs too far.

  1. 1. How thick can a polar bear's fat layer be?
  2. 2. What colour are the guard hairs really?
  3. 3. Summarise this text in one sentence.

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Answer key — Describe the Key Details

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles. 2. Cullet. 3. With a magnet.
  2. 2.1. Up to eleven centimetres. 2. Clear, not white. 3. A polar bear keeps warm with thick fat, dense underfur and hollow guard hairs, and is so well insulated it can overheat.

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