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Free 2nd grade reading comprehension worksheet

A short nonfiction passage for Grade 2 readers, with five questions on key details, main idea and vocabulary. Read it here, print this page, or download the free PDF sample with another passage and answer key.

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Little Practice · Grade 2 ReadingName: ____________________

Read the passage. You can read it again when you answer the questions.

How bees help flowers

Bees visit flowers to find food. Inside many flowers is a sweet liquid called nectar. Bees drink nectar and carry some back to their hive. Honey bees use it to make honey.

Flowers also have a yellow powder called pollen. When a bee lands on a flower, pollen sticks to its fuzzy body. The bee flies to another flower, and some of the pollen rubs off. This helps the flower make seeds. New plants can grow from those seeds.

Many fruits and vegetables we eat depend on this help. Apples, blueberries and pumpkins all need insects like bees to carry their pollen. Without bees, gardens and farms would grow much less food.

  1. What is nectar?

  2. How does pollen get onto a bee?

  3. Why does it matter when pollen moves from one flower to another?

  4. What does "depend on" mean in the last paragraph?

  5. What is the main idea of the passage?

Answer key

  1. A sweet liquid inside many flowers.
  2. It sticks to the bee's fuzzy body when the bee lands on a flower.
  3. It helps the flower make seeds, and new plants can grow from the seeds.
  4. Need or rely on.
  5. Bees help flowers make seeds, which helps plants and our food grow.
LITTLE PRACTICE · GRADE 2Everyday science reading
16 activity pages · answers included

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The full Everyday science reading workbook has 16 activity pages and a full answer key, in A4 and US Letter.

  • Key details and main topic
  • Vocabulary in context
  • Evidence from a passage

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The free PDF sample includes: an adult guide on how to use the pages, "a seed starts to grow", an original nonfiction passage, a question page and the matching answer key.

Tips for adults

  • Read the passage aloud together first, then let your child reread it alone.
  • Ask your child to point to the sentence that proves each answer.
  • Accept answers in your child's own words if they match the passage.

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Is this worksheet really free?

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What reading skills are practised in Grade 2?

Grade 2 readers work on answering who, what, where, when, why and how questions, finding the main topic of a passage, and working out word meanings from context.

Is the passage original?

Yes. All passages are written for Little Practice.

What is in the full workbook?

26 pages: 8 original science passages, 8 question pages and 8 answer pages, plus a cover and an adult guide.

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