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Would a Heading Help Here? is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on saying what a text feature would add to a passage, aligned to Common Core standard RI.2.5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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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Would a Heading Help Here?

RI.2.5

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.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. How would a caption under a photograph of cullet help?
  2. 2. What is the second paragraph about?
  3. 3. What is the fourth paragraph about?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Inside a Fire Engine

A fire engine carries everything a crew might need, because there is no time to go back for anything. It holds about eighteen hundred litres of water. That sounds like a lot, but a hose can empty it in under three minutes, so the crew connect to a hydrant as soon as they can. Ladders are carried on the roof. The longest can reach a third-floor window. Inside are cutting tools for road accidents, breathing sets for smoke, and a thermal camera that finds a hot spot through a wall. The engine is red so that it is seen. The siren is for when being seen is not enough.

  1. 1. What is the second paragraph about?
  2. 2. What is the last paragraph about?
  3. 3. How would a labelled photograph help this text?

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Answer key — Would a Heading Help Here?

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It would name what the picture shows, so the new word is tied to the thing. 2. Sorting bottles by colour and why colours must be kept apart. 3. Why melting cullet uses less energy than making glass from raw materials.
  2. 2.1. The water the engine carries and why the crew connect to a hydrant. 2. Why the engine is red and why it has a siren. 3. It could point at the ladders, the hose and the tools where they actually are on the engine.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.2.5 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.