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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 Paper Is Recycled

Used paper does not become new paper by magic. It goes through five stages. First it is sorted. Card, newspaper and office paper are separated, because each makes a different grade of new paper. Second it is pulped. The paper is mixed with water and churned until the fibres come apart. Third it is cleaned. Staples, glue and ink are removed. Ink is lifted out with air bubbles. Fourth the pulp is pressed flat between rollers and dried. Fifth it is cut into sheets. Paper can be recycled about five to seven times before its fibres get too short to hold together.

  1. 1. How many stages does recycling paper take?
  2. 2. How many times can paper be recycled?
  3. 3. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Launching a Lifeboat

When a boat is in trouble, a call goes out to the lifeboat station. Pagers sound. The crew are volunteers, so they stop whatever they are doing and drive to the station. Most arrive within six minutes. They pull on drysuits and lifejackets and climb aboard. The boat slides down a ramp into the sea and the engines start. At sea, the crew look for a flare, a light, or a shape in the water. Once they find the boat, they take the people off first and the boat second. A lifeboat can right itself if a wave rolls it over.

  1. 1. How long do most of the crew take to reach the station?
  2. 2. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  3. 3. What do the crew take off the boat first?

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Answer key — Describe the Key Details

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  1. 1.1. Five. 2. About five to seven times. 3. Used paper is sorted, pulped, cleaned, pressed and cut into new sheets, and can be recycled five to seven times.
  2. 2.1. Within six minutes. 2. A pager call brings volunteers to the station, they suit up, launch down a ramp and take the people off a boat in trouble. 3. The people.

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