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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 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. Which sentence shows the crow tried something before the pebbles?
  2. 2. Why could the crow not reach the water at first?
  3. 3. How many pebbles did it take?
  4. 4. Which words tell you the crow was thirsty?
2.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. Which line tells you the fog moves with the walker?
  2. 2. What is standing in a cloud?
  3. 3. Which words rhyme with "tree"?
  4. 4. How far can the speaker see?

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Answer key — Read and Reread

Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. "She pushed the pitcher. It was too heavy to tip." 2. The neck of the pitcher was narrow and her beak could not reach. 3. Forty. 4. "A crow had flown for hours without finding water" and "drank until she had had enough".
  2. 2.1. "I walk. The ten steps walk with me." 2. The postbox. 3. "See" and "me". 4. Ten short steps.

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