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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.

Volcanoes

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust where hot rock reaches the surface. Deep underground, rock is so hot that it melts. Melted rock is called magma. Magma is lighter than the solid rock around it, so it rises. When magma reaches the surface it is called lava. Lava can pour out slowly in rivers, or it can burst out in an explosion, depending on how thick it is. As lava cools it hardens into new rock. Layer after layer, this new rock builds the mountain we call a volcano.

  1. 1. How would a heading over the third paragraph help a reader?
  2. 2. What is the last paragraph about?
  3. 3. What is the second paragraph about?
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. 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?

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Answer key — Would a Heading Help Here?

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It would say that part is about lava at the surface, so a reader could find it fast. 2. How cooling lava hardens and builds the volcano. 3. How rock melts underground into magma and why it rises.
  2. 2.1. 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.

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