Meet the Giraffe: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The giraffe is a mammal. It lives in the dry grasslands of Africa. This place is wide and open.

The giraffe eats acacia leaves and twigs. It sleeps only a few minutes at a time, often standing up.

The giraffe has a neck up to 2 meters long. This lets it reach leaves high in trees. It is about 5.5 meters tall.

Baby giraffes are called calves. A calf drops about 2 meters to the ground when it is born and stands within an hour.

Questions

Details Where does the giraffe live?
the dry grasslands of Africa deserts and dry scrubland in the southwestern United States and Mexico cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean the northern forests of Canada, the northern United States and Alaska
Details Which of these does the giraffe eat?
water buffalo roots and fruit flies twigs
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the giraffe use a neck up to 2 meters long?
It helps it grip bamboo stalks. It lets it reach leaves high in trees. They help it dig and run along the forest floor. They crush tough bamboo.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
what it eats how scientists count animals where it lives where the animal sleeps
Vocabulary Baby giraffes are called…
tadpoles owlets calves kits
Inference What word best describes where the giraffe lives?
freezing cold near fresh water full of trees wide and open
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the polar bear the life of the giraffe the life of the emperor penguin the life of the camel

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