1.What sweet liquid do worker bees collect from flowers?
APollen
BNectar
CDew drops
DSap
Grade 2reading comprehensionOriginal practice
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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Grade 2 · ela · Matching answer key included · US Letter and A4
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Before you begin
Read short informational sentences or listen to them with support.
How to use this worksheet
- Model the target skill: ask and answer questions (who, what, where, when, why, and how) to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. Use the first task as a guided example before asking for an independent response.
- Check readiness first: Read short informational sentences or listen to them with support.
- Discuss an incorrect response using this distinction: An answer about nectar must come from the passage; a detail about pollen may answer a different question.
A common mistake to discuss
An answer about nectar must come from the passage; a detail about pollen may answer a different question.
What to practice next
Explain a bee's role in pollination using a detail from the passage.
This is an original practice passage, not a reproduction of a primary source. Read the answer explanations as interpretations of the provided text.
Read the practice passage: The Busy Life of Honeybees
Honeybees are tiny insects with very important jobs. A single bee colony can have up to fifty thousand bees living together in a hive.
Worker 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!
Back 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.
Sample question and answer
What sweet liquid do worker bees collect from flowers?
- A. Pollen
- B. Nectar
- C. Dew drops
- D. Sap
Answer: B. Paragraph 2 states: 'Worker bees fly from flower to flower collecting a sweet liquid called nectar.'
Intended curriculum references: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1. These references describe learning goals; they are not endorsements.
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