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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.

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. Which line is repeated in the poem?
  2. 2. Which words rhyme with "road"?
  3. 3. What comes out at the end of the poem?
  4. 4. Where does the rain fall in the third verse?
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 trapped the lion later?
  2. 2. Which words show the lion did not believe the mouse?
  3. 3. Which sentence shows the lion's strength did not work?
  4. 4. How did the mouse free him?

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Answer key — Read and Reread

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "Rain on the roof, rain on the road" — it opens the poem and returns at the end. 2. "Toad". 3. The sun. 4. In the gutter and in the drain.
  2. 2.1. A hunter's net. 2. "The lion laughed. How could a mouse help a lion?" 3. "He roared and pulled, and the ropes only tightened." 4. She gnawed the ropes, one strand at a time.

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