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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.

Rain on the Roof

Rain on the roof, rain on the road, rain on the back of a slow brown toad. Rain on the window, rain on the pane, rain on the roses, rain, rain, rain. Rain in the gutter, rain in the drain, rain till the puddle is deep as a lane. Rain on the roof, rain on the road — and out comes the sun for the slow brown toad.

  1. 1. What would a picture for the last verse show?
  2. 2. What happens last in the poem?
2.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. What would a picture of the end of the story show?
  3. 3. Where does the first part of the story happen?

LessonPrint · RL.2.7 · Set 23 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Picture the Setting

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The sun coming out over the road, with the brown toad still there. 2. The sun comes out for the slow brown toad.
  2. 2.1. Weeks passed and the lion walked into a hunter's net. 2. The mouse gnawing the ropes of the net while the lion waits. 3. In the sun, where the lion lay sleeping.

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