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Reading a Grade 2 Fact Text is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on reading a whole information text and answering across it, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.10. 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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Reading a Grade 2 Fact Text

RI.2.10

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Volcanoes

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust where hot rock reaches the surface. Deep underground, rock is so hot that it melts. Melted rock is called magma. Magma is lighter than the solid rock around it, so it rises. When magma reaches the surface it is called lava. Lava can pour out slowly in rivers, or it can burst out in an explosion, depending on how thick it is. As lava cools it hardens into new rock. Layer after layer, this new rock builds the mountain we call a volcano.

  1. 1. What builds the mountain?
  2. 2. What is the main topic of this text?
  3. 3. The author says magma rises. What reason is given?
  4. 4. What does "crust" mean in this text?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Glass Is Recycled

Glass is unusual. It can be melted and remade for ever without getting any worse. Bottles are first sorted by colour. Clear, green and brown glass have to be kept apart, because you cannot make clear glass from green. The glass is then crushed into small pieces called cullet. Metal lids are pulled out with a magnet. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials glass is made from. That means recycling glass uses less energy than making it new. The melted glass is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles.

  1. 1. What is the main topic of this text?
  2. 2. Why are the colours kept apart?
  3. 3. How are metal lids removed?
  4. 4. What happens to the melted glass at the end?

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Answer key — Reading a Grade 2 Fact Text

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Layer after layer of hardened lava. 2. Volcanoes, and how melted rock builds them. 3. Magma is lighter than the solid rock around it. 4. The solid outer layer of the Earth.
  2. 2.1. How glass bottles are recycled into new ones. 2. Because you cannot make clear glass from green glass. 3. With a magnet. 4. It is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.10 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.