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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 a Polar Bear Stays Warm

A polar bear lives where the sea freezes. It has three ways of keeping its heat in. Under its skin is a layer of fat up to eleven centimetres thick. Fat is a poor conductor, so heat does not pass through it easily. Above that is dense underfur, packed tight so cold water cannot reach the skin. On top are long guard hairs. Each one is hollow and clear, not white. They look white because they scatter the light, the way snow does. A polar bear is so well insulated that it can overheat if it runs too far.

  1. 1. How are the guard hairs connected to the bear looking white?
  2. 2. Name the three layers from the skin outwards.
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 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The hairs are clear but scatter light, which makes the bear look white. 2. Fat, then dense underfur, then long guard hairs.
  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.