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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.PIG: Not by the hair on my chin! [She shakes with fear.] How should the pig's voice sound?
  • A.Proud and happy
  • B.Shaky and scared
  • C.Sleepy and slow
3.GIANT: Fee, fi, fo, fum! [He stamps his feet.] How should you read the giant's line?
  • A.In a loud, deep, booming voice
  • B.In a sad, quiet voice
  • C.In a tiny whisper
4.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
5.WOLF: Let me in! [He knocks on the door.] What do the words in brackets show?
  • A.What the wolf shouts
  • B.What the wolf does, not what he says
  • C.The name of the play
6.In a play script, how do you know which character is speaking?
  • A.The character's name is written before the words
  • B.The words rhyme
  • C.The words are in brackets
7.MOUSE: [quietly] Please let me go. How should the mouse's line be read?
  • A.Quietly
  • B.With a laugh
  • C.Loudly
8.TROLL: Who is that trip-trapping over my bridge? [He growls.] How does the troll feel?
  • A.Angry that someone is on his bridge
  • B.Sleepy and calm
  • C.Glad to have a visitor

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Answer key — Reading a Play Script

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.They are spoken by two different characters
  2. 2.Shaky and scared
  3. 3.In a loud, deep, booming voice
  4. 4.He thinks the mouse is too small to help
  5. 5.What the wolf does, not what he says
  6. 6.The character's name is written before the words
  7. 7.Quietly
  8. 8.Angry that someone is on his bridge

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