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Recount a Fable is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on retelling a fable with its key details, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 19 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.

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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 19 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.

Recount a Fable

RL.2.2

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Read the story, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Rain on the Roof

Rain on the roof, rain on the road, rain on the back of a slow brown toad. Rain on the window, rain on the pane, rain on the roses, rain, rain, rain. Rain in the gutter, rain in the drain, rain till the puddle is deep as a lane. Rain on the roof, rain on the road — and out comes the sun for the slow brown toad.

  1. 1. Retell what happens across this poem.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Bread That Would Not Rise

Nana let Ada make the bread on her own for the first time. Ada measured the flour, the salt and the water. She kneaded the dough until her arms ached. Then she covered the bowl and waited. An hour later the dough sat in the bowl exactly as she had left it. It had not risen at all. Nana looked at the packet on the shelf. "You used the salt twice," she said. "There is no yeast in it." Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen. Instead she washed it out and started again.

  1. 1. Recount this story with its key details.

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Answer key — Recount a Fable

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Rain falls on the roof, road, window, roses, gutter and drain until the puddle is deep, and then the sun comes out.
  2. 2.1. Ada made bread alone, used salt twice instead of yeast, the dough did not rise, and she started again.

More practice for RL.2.2

Retell a fable or folktale and say what its moral is.

Teaching this next? The Moral of a Fable is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.