What a Diagram Adds is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on explaining how an image clarifies a text, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.7. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 20 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
20 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.
What a Diagram Adds
RI.2.7
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
How a Polar Bear Stays Warm
A polar bear lives where the sea freezes. It has three ways of keeping its heat in.
Under its skin is a layer of fat up to eleven centimetres thick. Fat is a poor conductor, so heat does not pass through it easily.
Above that is dense underfur, packed tight so cold water cannot reach the skin.
On top are long guard hairs. Each one is hollow and clear, not white. They look white because they scatter the light, the way snow does.
A polar bear is so well insulated that it can overheat if it runs too far.
1. What would a cross-section diagram need to label?
2.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. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
LessonPrint · RI.2.7 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What a Diagram Adds
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The skin, the fat layer, the underfur and the guard hairs.
2.1. The station, the ramp down to the sea, and the lifeboat launching.
Questions about What a Diagram Adds
What does the What a Diagram Adds worksheet cover?
It practises explaining how an image clarifies a text — 2 questions for Grade 2, all on Common Core RI.2.7: Explain what a diagram adds that the words alone do not. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does What a Diagram Adds practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.7 — RI.2.7, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What a Diagram Adds is written for Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on RI.2.7, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What a Diagram Adds come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What a Diagram Adds can I print?
25 versions, of which 20 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is What a Diagram Adds free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What a Diagram Adds, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.2.7?
Yes — “Diagrams That Explain” is a 40-minute Grade 2 plan for RI.2.7, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What a Diagram Adds is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RI.2.7
Explain what a diagram adds that the words alone do not.
Teaching this next? Diagrams That Explain is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.