Reading Dialogue Aloud is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on telling the narrator's words from a character's, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 15 of them with 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
15 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Reading Dialogue Aloud
RL.2.6
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Read the story, then answer the questions.
1.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. Whose point of view does the question "How could a mouse help a lion?" come from?
2.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. How would this story sound if the crow told it herself?
LessonPrint · RL.2.6 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Reading Dialogue Aloud
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The lion's — it is what he was thinking.
2.1. It would use "I" — "I had flown for hours" instead of "a crow had flown for hours".
Questions about Reading Dialogue Aloud
What does the Reading Dialogue Aloud worksheet cover?
It practises telling the narrator's words from a character's — 2 questions for Grade 2, all on Common Core RL.2.6: Read dialogue in different voices, because the characters see things differently. The instruction to pupils is “Read the story, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Reading Dialogue Aloud practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6 — RL.2.6, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Reading Dialogue Aloud is written for Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on RL.2.6, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Reading Dialogue Aloud come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Reading Dialogue Aloud can I print?
25 versions, of which 15 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is Reading Dialogue Aloud free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Reading Dialogue Aloud, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RL.2.6
Read dialogue in different voices, because the characters see things differently.