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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. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  2. 2. How does a camel keep sand out of its nose?
  3. 3. How much can a thirsty camel drink in ten minutes?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Volcanoes

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust where hot rock reaches the surface. Deep underground, rock is so hot that it melts. Melted rock is called magma. Magma is lighter than the solid rock around it, so it rises. When magma reaches the surface it is called lava. Lava can pour out slowly in rivers, or it can burst out in an explosion, depending on how thick it is. As lava cools it hardens into new rock. Layer after layer, this new rock builds the mountain we call a volcano.

  1. 1. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  2. 2. What builds the mountain?
  3. 3. What is melted rock called underground?

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Answer key — Describe the Key Details

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A camel's fat-filled hump, long eyelashes, closable nostrils and wide feet let it survive a desert. 2. It can close its nostrils. 3. A hundred litres.
  2. 2.1. Melted rock rises through the Earth's crust as magma, pours out as lava, and hardens layer by layer into a volcano. 2. Layer after layer of hardened lava. 3. Magma.

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