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

The Crow and the Pitcher

A crow had flown for hours without finding water. At last she saw a pitcher standing in a garden. She landed on the rim and looked in. There was water at the bottom, but the neck was narrow and her beak could not reach it. She pushed the pitcher. It was too heavy to tip. Then the crow noticed the pebbles on the path. She picked one up and dropped it in. Then another. Then another. Each pebble pushed the water a little higher. After forty pebbles, the water reached the top. The crow drank until she had had enough.

  1. 1. Where does this story happen?
  2. 2. What did the crow do after pushing the pitcher failed?
  3. 3. What would a picture of the middle of the story show?

LessonPrint · RL.2.7 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Picture the Setting

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Weeks passed and the lion walked into a hunter's net. 2. In the sun, where the lion lay sleeping. 3. The mouse gnawing the ropes of the net while the lion waits.
  2. 2.1. In a garden, at a pitcher standing on a path. 2. She noticed the pebbles on the path and began dropping them in. 3. The crow dropping a pebble into the pitcher from the rim.

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