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Read and Reread is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on rereading a text closely enough to answer across it, aligned to Common Core standard RF.2.4. 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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Read and Reread

RF.2.4

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Read the text, 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. How did the mouse wake the lion?
  2. 2. Which sentence shows the lion's strength did not work?
  3. 3. Which words show the lion did not believe the mouse?
  4. 4. How did the mouse free him?
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 did Tess want to take home?
  2. 2. Which sentence shows Tess changed her mind?
  3. 3. Which words give Grandad's reason for saying no?
  4. 4. When did Grandad and Tess walk out to the rock pools?

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Answer key — Read and Reread

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. She ran across his paw. 2. "He roared and pulled, and the ropes only tightened." 3. "The lion laughed. How could a mouse help a lion?" 4. She gnawed the ropes, one strand at a time.
  2. 2.1. A starfish. 2. "It's better in the pool anyway." 3. "It would die in a bucket." 4. Every low tide.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.2.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.