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Picture the Setting is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on using details to work out what a scene looks like, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.7. 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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Picture the Setting

RL.2.7

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Read the story, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lion and the Mouse

A lion lay sleeping in the sun. A mouse ran across his paw and woke him. The lion caught the mouse in one hand. "Please let me go," said the mouse. "One day I may help you." The lion laughed. How could a mouse help a lion? But he opened his hand. Weeks later the lion walked into a hunter's net. He roared and pulled, and the ropes only tightened. The mouse heard him. She came at once and gnawed the ropes, one strand at a time, until the lion could step free.

  1. 1. What would a picture of the end of the story show?
  2. 2. What happened between the lion letting the mouse go and the mouse gnawing the ropes?
  3. 3. Where does the first part of the story happen?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What the Tide Left

Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools. Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead." Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had. She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."

  1. 1. What happened after Tess crouched down?
  2. 2. Where does this story happen?
  3. 3. What would a picture of the middle of the story show?

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Answer key — Picture the Setting

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The mouse gnawing the ropes of the net while the lion waits. 2. Weeks passed and the lion walked into a hunter's net. 3. In the sun, where the lion lay sleeping.
  2. 2.1. She saw the starfish move on its tiny feet, and she did not ask again. 2. At the rock pools, at low tide. 3. Tess crouching over the rock pool watching the starfish.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.