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What Do Plants Need to Grow?

Kindergarten research: gather facts from a short text to answer a question about plants, then recall what you know from your own life.

KindergartenELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toW.K.8

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What’s included

  • Single worksheet
  • Auto-graded online
  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 8 questions
  • Classroom-ready

Details

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students gather facts from a provided text to answer a question.
  • Students tell facts from a book apart from what the children did.
  • Students recall information from their own experience.

How to use

Read the text aloud, then read each question and its choices aloud. For the last question, an adult can help students tell or write their answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.K.8

With adult help, recall information from experience or gather it from provided sources to answer a question.

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Name Date

What Do Plants Need to Grow?

Use a book and what you know to answer a question.

Listen and read

Mia and Sam want to answer a question. Your teacher reads the text.

A Bean Seed Question

Mia and Sam have a question. What do plants need to grow?

They read a book about plants. The book says plants need water. Plants need sunlight, too.

Then they plant a bean seed in a cup of soil. Sam gives the seed a little water. Mia puts the cup by the window. Day by day, a small green sprout comes up.

Find the answers

Look back at the text. Answer each question.

1.
What question do Mia and Sam have?
  • A. How tall can a plant get?
  • B. What do plants need to grow?
  • C. Where do seeds come from?
2.
How did Mia and Sam find facts about plants?
  • A. They asked a farmer.
  • B. They watched a show.
  • C. They read a book.
3.
The book answers the question. Pick a word from the word bank.
Word bank: sunlight · candy · shoes

The book says plants need water and  .

4.
How many things does the book say plants need? Write the number.

  things

Book facts and what we did

Think about what the book says and what the children did.

5.
Sort each sentence. Is it a fact from the book, or something Mia and Sam did?
Plants need water.They put a bean seed in soil.Sam gave the seed a little water.Plants need sunlight.Mia set the cup by the window.
A fact from the bookSomething Mia and Sam did
6.
Who gave the seed water?
  • A. Sam
  • B. Mia
  • C. Their teacher
7.
Circle the sentence that tells what came up from the seed.

Then they plant a bean seed in a cup of soil.Sam gives the seed a little water.Mia puts the cup by the window.Day by day, a small green sprout comes up.

8.
Tell about a plant you have seen. What did it need to grow? You can write or tell an adult.

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