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Squid Tricks: Word Clues in the Sea

Grade 2 informational reading: an original article about squid, with context-clue questions on words like tentacles, suckers and blend in.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.2.4

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1 Common Core standard
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10 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students use context clues to work out the meaning of words in an informational text.
Students explain the meaning of phrases such as wriggle away and blend in.

How to use

Read the article aloud once, then have students reread each paragraph and look for the clue words near each word they are asked about.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.4

Work out the meaning of words and phrases in a text on a grade 2 topic or subject area.

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Squid Tricks: Word Clues in the Sea

Use clues in the text to work out what words mean.

Read the article

Read the article. Look for clues that tell what new words mean.

Squid Tricks

1A squid is a sea animal with a soft body. It has eight arms and two extra-long arms called tentacles. The tentacles shoot out to snatch fish and shrimp.

2Each arm is covered with suckers. Suckers are small, round cups that grip things tightly. Once a squid grabs a fish, it is hard for the fish to wriggle away.

3A squid can zoom through the water. It pulls water into its body. Then it squirts the water out of a tube, fast and hard. The push sends the squid shooting the other way, like a jet.

4Many ocean animals, such as sharks and whales, hunt squid. When a hungry predator comes near, a squid has tricks. It can squirt a cloud of dark ink. The ink hides the squid while it escapes. A squid can also change the color of its skin to blend in with what is around it.

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