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Reading a Play Script is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on how a script shows who speaks and how each voice should sound, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.6. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students 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 Play Script

RL.2.6

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1.HEN: Who will help me plant the wheat? DOG: Not I! Why do the two lines need different voices?
  • A.They are spoken by two different characters
  • B.One of them is the title
  • C.They are the same character
2.FOX: [sweetly] What a lovely voice you have, Crow. Why does the fox speak sweetly?
  • A.He wants to trick the crow
  • B.He is falling asleep
  • C.He is scared of the crow
3.GIANT: Fee, fi, fo, fum! [He stamps his feet.] How should you read the giant's line?
  • A.In a tiny whisper
  • B.In a sad, quiet voice
  • C.In a loud, deep, booming voice
4.Why is a play written with names before the lines instead of "said"?
  • A.Because plays have no characters
  • B.To make the play rhyme
  • C.So actors can see at once who speaks each line
5.LION: Ha! A mouse help me? [He laughs.] What does the lion think of the mouse?
  • A.He thinks the mouse is very strong
  • B.He thinks the mouse is too small to help
  • C.He is afraid of the mouse
6.In a play script, how do you know which character is speaking?
  • A.The words rhyme
  • B.The character's name is written before the words
  • C.The words are in brackets
7.WOLF: Let me in! [He knocks on the door.] Who is speaking?
  • A.The door
  • B.The wolf
  • C.The narrator
8.WOLF: Let me in! [He knocks on the door.] What do the words in brackets show?
  • A.The name of the play
  • B.What the wolf does, not what he says
  • C.What the wolf shouts

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Answer key — Reading a Play Script

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  1. 1.They are spoken by two different characters
  2. 2.He wants to trick the crow
  3. 3.In a loud, deep, booming voice
  4. 4.So actors can see at once who speaks each line
  5. 5.He thinks the mouse is too small to help
  6. 6.The character's name is written before the words
  7. 7.The wolf
  8. 8.What the wolf does, not what he says

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.