How One Thing Leads to Another is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on describing the connection between events or ideas, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.3. 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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. Put these in order: the boat slides down the ramp, pagers sound, the crew pull on drysuits.
2. How are the pagers connected to the launch?
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. How are magma and lava connected?
2. Put these in order: lava hardens, rock melts, magma rises.
LessonPrint · RI.2.3 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — How One Thing Leads to Another
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Pagers sound, the crew pull on drysuits, the boat slides down the ramp. 2. The pagers tell the volunteer crew to come, so the boat can be launched.
2.1. They are the same melted rock — magma underground becomes lava at the surface. 2. Rock melts, magma rises, lava hardens.
Questions about How One Thing Leads to Another
What does the How One Thing Leads to Another worksheet cover?
It practises describing the connection between events or ideas — 2 questions for Grade 2, all on Common Core RI.2.3: Explain how a series of events or steps in a text connect. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does How One Thing Leads to Another practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.3 — RI.2.3, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
How One Thing Leads to Another is written for Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on RI.2.3, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does How One Thing Leads to Another come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of How One Thing Leads to Another can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is How One Thing Leads to Another free to print and photocopy?
Yes. How One Thing Leads to Another, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RI.2.3
Explain how a series of events or steps in a text connect.