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 17 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
NameDate
Read the story, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The New Boy
A new boy called Iosif joined the class in November. He did not speak much English yet.
At playtime he stood by the wall. Some children waved. He looked away.
Marta noticed he was watching the football. She rolled the ball to him. He stopped it neatly and rolled it back.
They passed it for ten minutes without saying a word. When the bell went, Iosif said one word: "Tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow," said Marta.
1. What happened after Marta rolled him the ball?
2. Recount this story with its key details.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Fog Morning
The hill has gone. The wood has gone.
The postbox stands in a cloud, alone.
No sheep, no gate, no crooked tree —
only the ten short steps I see.
I walk. The ten steps walk with me.
The gate appears. And then the tree.
The hill comes back. The wood comes back.
The fog rolls off along the track.
1. Put these in order: the tree appears, the fog rolls off, the gate appears.
2. Retell what happens across this poem.
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Answer key — Recount What You Heard
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. He stopped it neatly, rolled it back, and they passed it for ten minutes. 2. Iosif joined the class without much English, stood alone at playtime, and made a friend by passing a football with Marta.
2.1. The gate appears, the tree appears, the fog rolls off. 2. Fog hides the hill, wood and sheep, the walker can see only ten steps, and as they walk the gate, tree, wood and hill come back.
More practice for SL.2.2
Retell the key ideas of something you listened to.
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