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Your Busy Bones

Read a five-paragraph article about the jobs bones do, then tell the focus of each paragraph and the main topic.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.2.2

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify the main topic of a multiparagraph article about bones.
Students tell a sentence that states a paragraph's focus apart from a detail.
Students decide which paragraph a new detail belongs in.

How to use

Read the article together, then let students work through the questions on their own. Remind them that the sentence telling a paragraph's focus is not always the first one.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.2

Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text and the focus of each paragraph within it.

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Your Busy Bones

Spot each paragraph's focus and the article's main topic.

Read the article

Read the article. Look for the sentence in each paragraph that tells what it is mostly about.

Your Busy Bones

1Press on your arm. Under your skin, you can feel something hard. That hard part is a bone. You have bones from your head to your toes. All of your bones together are called your skeleton. Your skeleton does important jobs every day.

2First, bones hold your body up. Without bones, you would flop like a wet noodle! Your backbone helps you sit and stand up tall. Strong leg bones carry your weight when you walk.

3Bones also keep soft parts of your body safe. Your skull is like a hard helmet around your brain. Your ribs curve around your chest like a cage. They protect your heart and lungs.

4Can you kick a ball without bones? No way! Bones help you move. Muscles are joined to your bones. When a muscle pulls on a bone, that part of your body moves. A place where two bones meet is called a joint. Joints in your knees and elbows let you bend.

5You can help your bones stay strong. Foods like milk, yogurt, and leafy greens help bones grow. Running, jumping, and playing outside make bones stronger, too.

Paragraph by paragraph

Answer each question about the paragraphs.

Which heading fits paragraph 1 best?

A. Your Skin and Hair
B. Meet Your Skeleton
C. The Strongest Muscles
D. A Visit to the Doctor

Each sentence is from the article. Does it tell what a paragraph is mostly about, or does it give a detail? Sort the sentences.

You can help your bones stay strong.Your ribs curve around your chest like a cage.Your backbone helps you sit and stand up tall.First, bones hold your body up.Bones also keep soft parts of your body safe.Foods like milk, yogurt, and leafy greens help bones grow.

Tells what a paragraph is mostly about	Gives a detail

Read paragraph 4 again. Underline the sentence that tells what paragraph 4 is mostly about.

Can you kick a ball without bones?No way!Bones help you move.Muscles are joined to your bones.When a muscle pulls on a bone, that part of your body moves.A place where two bones meet is called a joint.Joints in your knees and elbows let you bend.

Paragraph 3 tells about one job that bones do. Which detail does NOT tell about that job?