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 16 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.
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. Retell what happens across this poem.
2. What happens last in the poem?
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. Recount this fable and give its moral.
2. What did the crow do after pushing the pitcher failed?
LessonPrint · SL.2.2 · Set 16 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Recount What You Heard
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
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. The sun comes out for the slow brown toad.
2.1. A thirsty crow could not reach the water in a pitcher, so she dropped in pebbles until the water rose — little by little does the job. 2. She noticed the pebbles on the path and began dropping them in.
More practice for SL.2.2
Retell the key ideas of something you listened to.
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