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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.

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

LessonPrint · RL.2.7 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Picture the Setting

Set 8. 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. The crow dropping a pebble into the pitcher from the rim. 2. She noticed the pebbles on the path and began dropping them in. 3. In a garden, at a pitcher standing on a path.

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