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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.

Fog Morning

The hill has gone. The wood has gone. The postbox stands in a cloud, alone. No sheep, no gate, no crooked tree — only the ten short steps I see. I walk. The ten steps walk with me. The gate appears. And then the tree. The hill comes back. The wood comes back. The fog rolls off along the track.

  1. 1. Put these in order: the tree appears, the fog rolls off, the gate appears.
  2. 2. What would a picture for the first verse show?
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 would a picture of the middle of the story show?
  2. 2. What happened after Tess crouched down?
  3. 3. Where does this story happen?

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Answer key — Picture the Setting

Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The gate appears, the tree appears, the fog rolls off. 2. A postbox alone in thick fog, with no hill or wood behind it.
  2. 2.1. Tess crouching over the rock pool watching the starfish. 2. She saw the starfish move on its tiny feet, and she did not ask again. 3. At the rock pools, at low tide.

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