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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.

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. 1. What is the fourth paragraph about?
  2. 2. What is the second paragraph about?
  3. 3. How would numbered steps help this text?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Earthquakes

The Earth's crust is not one piece. It is broken into huge slabs called plates, and the plates are always moving — about as fast as your fingernails grow. Where two plates meet, they can catch on each other. Pressure builds up for years while they are stuck. When they finally slip, all that stored energy is released at once. The ground shakes. That shaking is an earthquake. Most earthquakes are too small to feel. A few are strong enough to bring down buildings, which is why new buildings in some places are made to sway.

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

LessonPrint · RI.2.5 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Would a Heading Help Here?

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Searching at sea and getting people off the boat. 2. The pagers going off and the volunteer crew getting to the station. 3. The whole text is a sequence, and numbers would show the order at a glance.
  2. 2.1. How strong earthquakes are, and how buildings are made to cope. 2. It would say that part is about how strong earthquakes are, so a reader could find it. 3. How plates catch on each other and pressure builds up.

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