Recount What You Heard is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on retelling the key ideas of a text read aloud, aligned to Common Core standard SL.2.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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 15 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 23 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 What You Heard
SL.2.2
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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. Recount this fable and give its moral.
2. What happened between the lion letting the mouse go and the mouse gnawing the ropes?
2.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. What happens last in the poem?
2. Retell what happens across this poem.
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Answer key — Recount What You Heard
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A lion spared a mouse, and later the mouse gnawed him free of a hunter's net — a small friend can do what strength cannot. 2. Weeks passed and the lion walked into a hunter's net.
2.1. The sun comes out for the slow brown toad. 2. Rain falls on the roof, road, window, roses, gutter and drain until the puddle is deep, and then the sun comes out.
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