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Subject Words in a Text is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on working out a subject word from the text it sits in, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.4. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 21 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. 21 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.

Subject Words in a Text

RI.2.4

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Launching a Lifeboat

When a boat is in trouble, a call goes out to the lifeboat station. Pagers sound. The crew are volunteers, so they stop whatever they are doing and drive to the station. Most arrive within six minutes. They pull on drysuits and lifejackets and climb aboard. The boat slides down a ramp into the sea and the engines start. At sea, the crew look for a flare, a light, or a shape in the water. Once they find the boat, they take the people off first and the boat second. A lifeboat can right itself if a wave rolls it over.

  1. 1. What does "right itself" mean here?
  2. 2. What is a "flare"?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Glass Is Recycled

Glass is unusual. It can be melted and remade for ever without getting any worse. Bottles are first sorted by colour. Clear, green and brown glass have to be kept apart, because you cannot make clear glass from green. The glass is then crushed into small pieces called cullet. Metal lids are pulled out with a magnet. Cullet melts at a lower temperature than the raw materials glass is made from. That means recycling glass uses less energy than making it new. The melted glass is poured into moulds and blown into new bottles.

  1. 1. What is a "mould"?
  2. 2. What is "cullet"?

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Answer key — Subject Words in a Text

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  1. 1.1. Turn back upright on its own after being rolled over. 2. A bright light fired up from a boat to show where it is.
  2. 2.1. A shaped container that melted glass is poured into to give it its shape. 2. Glass that has been crushed into small pieces ready for melting.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.4 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.