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How Bees Make Honey

Grade 2 informational reading: an original article about how honey bees make honey, with who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

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Aligned toRI.2.1

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about an informational text.
  • Students find key details in a text to support each answer.

How to use

Read the article aloud once, then let students read it again on their own. Ask them to point to the sentence that proves each answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.1

Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to show understanding of an informational text's key details.

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How Bees Make Honey

Read about the hive and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

Read the article

Read the article about honey bees.

How Bees Make Honey

1Honey bees live together in a home called a hive. Many bees share one hive. Each bee has a job to do.

2On warm spring and summer days, worker bees fly out to find flowers. A bee lands on a flower and sips a sweet juice called nectar. Then the bee flies back to the hive with the nectar.

3Inside the hive, other bees take the nectar. They flap their wings over it. This dries the nectar and makes it thick. The thick, sweet liquid is honey. The bees store the honey in small wax cells.

4Bees make honey so they will have food. In winter, few flowers are growing. Then the bees eat the honey they saved.

Who, what, where and when

Use the article to answer each question.

1.
Who flies out to find flowers?
  • A. The garden birds
  • B. The worker bees
  • C. The little butterflies
  • D. The hungry ants
2.
Where do honey bees live?
  • A. In a hive with other bees
  • B. In a nest in a tree
  • C. In a hole under the ground
  • D. In the middle of a flower
3.
What is the sweet juice that bees sip from flowers called? Write the word.

Bees sip   from flowers.

4.
When do worker bees fly out to find flowers?
  • A. On cold winter days
  • B. At night, when it is dark
  • C. On warm spring and summer days
  • D. On cool fall evenings

How and why

Look back at the article to find the details.

5.
How do the bees inside the hive make the nectar thick?
  • A. They carry it to a new flower.
  • B. They add cold water to it.
  • C. They sip it until it is gone.
  • D. They flap their wings over it.
6.
Why do bees make honey?
  • A. So the flowers will grow faster
  • B. So they will have food to eat
  • C. So the hive will have more wax
  • D. So worker bees can fly higher
7.
Read paragraph 4 again. Underline the sentence that tells what the bees eat when few flowers are growing.

Bees make honey so they will have food.In winter, few flowers are growing.Then the bees eat the honey they saved.

8.
Where does each thing happen? Sort the details.
A bee sips nectar.Bees flap their wings over nectar.Honey is stored in wax cells.A bee lands to get a sweet juice.
At a flowerInside the hive
9.
Why does a worker bee fly back to the hive with the nectar? Use details from the article.

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