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Nonfiction: How Bees Make Honey
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
How Bees Make Honey
Honeybees live together in a busy hive.
Worker bees fly out to flowers to collect sweet nectar.
They carry the nectar back inside their special stomachs.
In the hive, the bees turn the nectar into thick honey.
They store the honey in tiny wax cells called a honeycomb.
Bees eat honey to stay alive through the cold winter.
1) Where do honeybees live?
2) What do worker bees collect?
3) What do they turn nectar into?
4) Where is honey stored?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: How Bees Make Honey
Ages 6–8
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Nonfiction: The Amazing Octopus
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
The Amazing Octopus
An octopus is a sea animal with eight long arms.
Each arm is covered with round suckers that grip and taste.
An octopus can change its color to hide from danger.
It can squeeze its soft body into very small spaces.
If a predator comes close, it shoots out a cloud of dark ink.
The octopus is one of the smartest animals in the ocean.
1) How many arms does an octopus have?
2) What is on each arm?
3) How does it hide?
4) What does it shoot out?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: The Amazing Octopus
Ages 6–8
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Nonfiction: What Is a Volcano?
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
What Is a Volcano?
A volcano is a mountain with an opening at the top.
Deep under the ground the rock is so hot it melts.
This melted rock is called magma.
Sometimes the magma pushes up and bursts out the top.
When magma reaches the surface, it is called lava.
The lava cools and hardens into new rock.
1) What is a volcano?
2) What is melted rock called?
3) What is it called on the surface?
4) What does lava do when it cools?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: What Is a Volcano?
Ages 6–8
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Nonfiction: Penguins of the Cold
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
Penguins of the Cold
Penguins are birds that cannot fly.
They live where it is very cold and icy.
A thick layer of fat keeps a penguin warm.
Penguins are excellent swimmers and use their wings like paddles.
They eat fish that they catch in the sea.
Baby penguins are called chicks and are covered in soft down.
1) Can penguins fly?
2) What keeps a penguin warm?
3) How do penguins swim?
4) What do penguins eat?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: Penguins of the Cold
Ages 6–8
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Nonfiction: Why We Recycle
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
Why We Recycle
Recycling means turning old things into new things.
People recycle paper, glass, metal, and plastic.
Trucks carry the sorted items to a special center.
Machines clean and break the items down.
Factories use them to make brand-new products.
Recycling keeps our planet cleaner and saves resources.
1) What does recycling mean?
2) Name one thing we recycle.
3) Where do trucks take items?
4) Why do we recycle?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: Why We Recycle
Ages 6–8
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Nonfiction: How Seeds Travel
Name
Score
Read the facts, then answer the questions.
How Seeds Travel
Plants cannot walk, but their seeds can still travel far.
Some seeds have tiny wings that spin in the wind.
Other seeds float on water to a new place.
Sticky seeds hook onto the fur of animals.
Some seeds are inside fruit that animals eat.
When a seed lands in good soil, a new plant can grow.
1) Can plants walk?
2) How do some seeds move in the wind?
3) How do sticky seeds travel?
4) What does a seed need to grow?
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Reading Worksheet
Nonfiction: How Seeds Travel
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
How Bees Make Honey
Honeybees live together in a busy hive.
Worker bees fly out to flowers to collect sweet nectar.
They carry the nectar back inside their special stomachs.
In the hive, the bees turn the nectar into thick honey.
They store the honey in tiny wax cells called a honeycomb.
Bees eat honey to stay alive through the cold winter.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: How Bees Make Honey
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
The Amazing Octopus
An octopus is a sea animal with eight long arms.
Each arm is covered with round suckers that grip and taste.
An octopus can change its color to hide from danger.
It can squeeze its soft body into very small spaces.
If a predator comes close, it shoots out a cloud of dark ink.
The octopus is one of the smartest animals in the ocean.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: The Amazing Octopus
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
What Is a Volcano?
A volcano is a mountain with an opening at the top.
Deep under the ground the rock is so hot it melts.
This melted rock is called magma.
Sometimes the magma pushes up and bursts out the top.
When magma reaches the surface, it is called lava.
The lava cools and hardens into new rock.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: What Is a Volcano?
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
Penguins of the Cold
Penguins are birds that cannot fly.
They live where it is very cold and icy.
A thick layer of fat keeps a penguin warm.
Penguins are excellent swimmers and use their wings like paddles.
They eat fish that they catch in the sea.
Baby penguins are called chicks and are covered in soft down.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: Penguins of the Cold
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
Why We Recycle
Recycling means turning old things into new things.
People recycle paper, glass, metal, and plastic.
Trucks carry the sorted items to a special center.
Machines clean and break the items down.
Factories use them to make brand-new products.
Recycling keeps our planet cleaner and saves resources.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: Why We Recycle
Ages 6–8
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Main Idea & Details
Name
Score
Read the passage. Write the main idea and three details.
How Seeds Travel
Plants cannot walk, but their seeds can still travel far.
Some seeds have tiny wings that spin in the wind.
Other seeds float on water to a new place.
Sticky seeds hook onto the fur of animals.
Some seeds are inside fruit that animals eat.
When a seed lands in good soil, a new plant can grow.
Main idea:
Detail 1:
Detail 2:
Detail 3:
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Reading Worksheet
Find the Facts: How Seeds Travel
Ages 6–8
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Sequencing: What Happened?
Name
Score
Read the story. Number the events 1 to 4 in the right order.
How Bees Make Honey
Honeybees live together in a busy hive.
Worker bees fly out to flowers to collect sweet nectar.
They carry the nectar back inside their special stomachs.
In the hive, the bees turn the nectar into thick honey.
They store the honey in tiny wax cells called a honeycomb.
Bees eat honey to stay alive through the cold winter.
They collect nectar.
They store it in the hive.
Bees fly to flowers.
They make honey.
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Reading Worksheet
Steps in Order: How Bees Make Honey
Ages 6–8
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Sequencing: What Happened?
Name
Score
Read the story. Number the events 1 to 4 in the right order.
The Amazing Octopus
An octopus is a sea animal with eight long arms.
Each arm is covered with round suckers that grip and taste.
An octopus can change its color to hide from danger.
It can squeeze its soft body into very small spaces.
If a predator comes close, it shoots out a cloud of dark ink.
The octopus is one of the smartest animals in the ocean.
The octopus changes color.
It shoots ink to escape.
It squeezes into a space.
A predator comes near.
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Reading Worksheet
Steps in Order: The Amazing Octopus
Ages 6–8
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Sequencing: What Happened?
Name
Score
Read the story. Number the events 1 to 4 in the right order.
What Is a Volcano?
A volcano is a mountain with an opening at the top.
Deep under the ground the rock is so hot it melts.
This melted rock is called magma.
Sometimes the magma pushes up and bursts out the top.
When magma reaches the surface, it is called lava.
The lava cools and hardens into new rock.
Magma pushes up.
It bursts out as lava.
Rock melts into magma.
The lava cools into rock.
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Reading Worksheet
Steps in Order: What Is a Volcano?
Ages 6–8
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Sequencing: What Happened?
Name
Score
Read the story. Number the events 1 to 4 in the right order.
Penguins of the Cold
Penguins are birds that cannot fly.
They live where it is very cold and icy.
A thick layer of fat keeps a penguin warm.
Penguins are excellent swimmers and use their wings like paddles.
They eat fish that they catch in the sea.
Baby penguins are called chicks and are covered in soft down.
A penguin dives in.
It feeds its chick.
It catches a fish.
It uses wings to swim.
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Reading Worksheet
Steps in Order: Penguins of the Cold
Ages 6–8
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