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Original passages, fiction and nonfiction, each followed by multiple-choice and short-answer questions. There are 5 sheets here: busy Honeybees (nonfiction), the Science Fair (fiction), frogs and Toads (nonfiction), the Big Storm (fiction) and the Lost Mitten (grades 1–2). Pick one from the tray, print it, and add its answer key as a second page if you want one.

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Busy Honeybees

Read the passage. Then answer the questions.

Busy Honeybees

Honeybees live together in a home called a hive. One hive can hold thousands of bees, and each bee has a job.

The queen bee lays the eggs. Worker bees are female. They collect nectar and pollen from flowers, clean the hive, and feed the young bees. Drones are male bees. Their job is to mate with a queen from another hive.

Bees turn nectar into honey. They store the honey in tiny wax cells that have six sides, like hexagons. When a bee visits a flower, pollen sticks to its fuzzy body. The bee carries the pollen to the next flower, which helps plants make seeds and fruit.

  1. What is the main idea of this passage?Bees sting people.Honeybees live in hives and each has a job.Flowers are pretty.
  2. Which bee lays the eggs?a worker beea dronethe queen bee
  3. What shape are the wax cells?circleshexagonssquares
  1. Name two jobs of worker bees.
  2. How do bees help plants?
  3. What do bees make from nectar?
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What grade are these reading comprehension worksheets for?

They suit grades 2 to 5. Each sheet in the tray practices it a different way, so you can pick the one that fits.

Is there an answer key?

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