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Following a Long Explanation is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on holding a multi-stage explanation together, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.10. 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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Following a Long Explanation

RI.2.10

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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. What happens right after the paper is pulped?
  2. 2. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  3. 3. How is sorting connected to the grade of new paper?
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. How are magma and lava connected?
  2. 2. Put these in order: lava hardens, rock melts, magma rises.
  3. 3. Summarise this text in one sentence.

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Answer key — Following a Long Explanation

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  1. 1.1. It is cleaned — staples, glue and ink are removed. 2. Used paper is sorted, pulped, cleaned, pressed and cut into new sheets, and can be recycled five to seven times. 3. Each kind of used paper makes a different grade, so they are separated first.
  2. 2.1. They are the same melted rock — magma underground becomes lava at the surface. 2. Rock melts, magma rises, lava hardens. 3. Melted rock rises through the Earth's crust as magma, pours out as lava, and hardens layer by layer into a volcano.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.