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What the Picture Adds is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on using illustrations and words together, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.7. 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.

Set 24 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

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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.

What the Picture Adds

RL.2.7

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Read the story, then answer the questions.

1.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. 1. What would a picture of the middle of the story show?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Kite in the Elm

Sami's kite caught in the top of the elm on the very first day. He tried throwing a ball at it. He tried a long stick. He tried shaking the trunk with both arms. The kite stayed exactly where it was. His sister Rana came out with a bucket and a length of washing line. She tied the line to the bucket handle, threw the bucket over the branch, and pulled. The branch bent. The kite slid off and dropped into the grass. "How did you know that would work?" said Sami. "I didn't," said Rana.

  1. 1. What would a picture of the solution show?

LessonPrint · RL.2.7 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What the Picture Adds

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The crow dropping a pebble into the pitcher from the rim.
  2. 2.1. Rana pulling the washing line with the bucket over the branch, the branch bending.

More practice for RL.2.7

Put the pictures and the words together to explain the story.

Teaching this next? Pictures and Words Together is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.7 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.