Skip to content
LessonPrint

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.

Set 22 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per pupil

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Would a Heading Help Here?

RI.2.5

NameDate

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. What is the second paragraph about?
  2. 2. How would a heading over the third paragraph help a reader?
  3. 3. What is the last paragraph about?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How a Camel Survives

A camel can cross a desert that would kill most animals. Almost every part of it helps. Its hump is not full of water. It is full of fat. The camel uses the fat for energy when there is no food, which is why the hump sags on a hungry camel. A camel has two rows of long eyelashes and can close its nostrils. Both keep sand out during a storm. Its feet are wide and flat. They spread the camel's weight so it does not sink into soft sand. A thirsty camel can drink a hundred litres in ten minutes.

  1. 1. What is the fourth paragraph about?
  2. 2. How would subheadings help in this text?
  3. 3. What is the second paragraph about?

LessonPrint · RI.2.5 · Set 22 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Would a Heading Help Here?

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. How rock melts underground into magma and why it rises. 2. It would say that part is about lava at the surface, so a reader could find it fast. 3. How cooling lava hardens and builds the volcano.
  2. 2.1. The camel's wide flat feet and why they matter in soft sand. 2. Each body part could have its own named section, so a reader could find the hump or the feet directly. 3. The hump, and the fat stored in it.

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