Listen and Tell Back is a free printable Kindergarten English worksheet on holding on to the facts well enough to say them back, aligned to Common Core standard RI.K.10. 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 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
A frog starts as an egg in the water. The egg hatches into a tadpole. A tadpole has a tail and no legs. The tadpole grows back legs. Then it grows front legs. Its tail gets shorter. At last it is a frog.
1. Which legs grow first, the back legs or the front legs?
2. Put these in order: tadpole, frog, egg.
3. What is this text mostly about?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Ants
Ants are insects. An ant has six legs. Ants live together in a nest. Some ants dig tunnels. Some ants carry food. An ant can lift something much bigger than itself. Ants work as a team.
1. How are the nest and the tunnels connected?
2. What is this text mostly about?
3. What do ants do with the food they find?
LessonPrint · RI.K.10 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Listen and Tell Back
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The back legs. 2. Egg, tadpole, frog. 3. How a frog grows from an egg.
2.1. Ants dig tunnels to make the nest they live in. 2. Ants, and how they live and work together. 3. They carry it back to the nest.
Questions about Listen and Tell Back
What does the Listen and Tell Back worksheet cover?
It practises holding on to the facts well enough to say them back — 2 questions for Kindergarten, all on Common Core RI.K.10: Join in with a shared fact book and follow what it is teaching. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Listen and Tell Back practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.10 — RI.K.10, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Kindergarten. The published standard reads: “Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Listen and Tell Back is written for Kindergarten, typically ages 5-6. It is one of the sheets on RI.K.10, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Listen and Tell Back come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Listen and Tell Back can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Listen and Tell Back free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Listen and Tell Back, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RI.K.10
Join in with a shared fact book and follow what it is teaching.