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.
Set 7 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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.
What the Tide Left
Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools.
Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead."
Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had.
She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."
1. Recount this story with its key details.
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. Recount this story with its key details.
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Answer key — Recount a Fable
Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Tess wanted to take a starfish home, Grandad refused and gave a reason, and after watching it move she agreed it was better in the pool.
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.