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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.

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How One Thing Leads to Another

RI.2.3

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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. How is cullet connected to using less energy?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the glass is crushed, bottles are sorted, the glass is melted.
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 are the pagers connected to the launch?
  2. 2. Put these in order: the boat slides down the ramp, pagers sound, the crew pull on drysuits.

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Answer key — How One Thing Leads to Another

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials, so less energy is needed. 2. Bottles are sorted, the glass is crushed, the glass is melted.
  2. 2.1. The pagers tell the volunteer crew to come, so the boat can be launched. 2. Pagers sound, the crew pull on drysuits, the boat slides down the ramp.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.