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 8 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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.
What the Tide Left
Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools.
Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead."
Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had.
She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."
1. What would a picture of the middle of the story show?
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. What would a picture for the first verse show?
LessonPrint · RL.2.7 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What the Picture Adds
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Tess crouching over the rock pool watching the starfish.
2.1. A postbox alone in thick fog, with no hill or wood behind it.
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.