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Reading Comprehension: The Busy Honeybee

Engaging second-grade informational text passage about honeybees and pollination, followed by 3 Common Core comprehension questions.

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The Busy Life of Honeybees

A worker honeybee collecting nectar and transferring pollen grains on a sunflower blossom.

¶1Honeybees are tiny insects with very important jobs. A single bee colony can have up to fifty thousand bees living together in a hive.

¶2Worker bees fly from flower to flower collecting a sweet liquid called nectar. As they drink the nectar, yellow dust called pollen sticks to their fuzzy legs and bodies. When the bees visit the next blossom, some of this pollen rubs off onto the flower. This process is called pollination, and it helps plants make new seeds and delicious fruit like apples and strawberries!

¶3Back at the hive, bees turn the sweet nectar into golden honey. Honey serves as their food during the cold winter months when flowers are not blooming.

Questions about “The Busy Life of Honeybees”

1.What sweet liquid do worker bees collect from flowers?

APollen

BNectar

CDew drops

DSap

2.How does pollination help flowering plants?

AIt helps plants produce new seeds and fruit.

BIt keeps the plants warm in the winter.

CIt changes the color of the soil.

DIt helps flowers grow leaves faster.

3.Why do bees store honey inside their hive?

ATo share with other woodland animals.

BTo serve as food during the cold winter when flowers do not bloom.

CTo make their hive heavier.

DTo attract more worker bees from nearby hives.

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The Busy Life of Honeybees

¶1Honeybees are tiny insects with very important jobs. A single bee colony can have up to fifty thousand bees living together in a hive.

¶3Back at the hive, bees turn the sweet nectar into golden honey. Honey serves as their food during the cold winter months when flowers are not blooming.

Questions about “The Busy Life of Honeybees”

1.What sweet liquid do worker bees collect from flowers?

B. Nectar

Paragraph 2 states: 'Worker bees fly from flower to flower collecting a sweet liquid called nectar.'

2.How does pollination help flowering plants?

A. It helps plants produce new seeds and fruit.

The text explains: 'This process is called pollination, and it helps plants make new seeds and delicious fruit.'

3.Why do bees store honey inside their hive?

B. To serve as food during the cold winter when flowers do not bloom.

Paragraph 3 notes: 'Honey serves as their food during the cold winter months when flowers are not blooming.'

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Learning goals

Ask and answer questions (who, what, where, when, why, and how) to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text
Identify how worker bees gather nectar and help flowers through pollination
Develop close reading habits by citing evidence directly from the text

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1

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