How Bees Make Honey: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

Honeybees live together in a home called a hive. Thousands of bees can live in one hive.

Worker bees fly from flower to flower. They suck up a sweet juice called nectar with their long tongues. Then they carry the nectar back to the hive.

Inside the hive, the bees put the nectar into tiny wax rooms called cells. They fan the nectar with their wings. The moving air dries out the water, and the nectar turns thick and sticky. Now it is honey!

Bees eat the honey in winter, when there are no flowers. A busy bee hive can make more honey than the bees need, so beekeepers can share some.

Questions

Vocabulary What is nectar?
a sweet juice in flowers a tiny wax room a bee's home a kind of wing
Details Where do bees put the nectar in the hive?
in tiny wax cells on the flowers in the beekeeper's jar under the hive
Cause and effect Why do bees fan the nectar with their wings?
to dry out the water to keep warm to scare other bugs to fly away
Sequence Put the steps in order. What comes first?
Bees drink nectar from flowers. Bees fan the nectar. The nectar turns into honey. Bees eat honey in winter.
Inference Why do bees need honey in winter?
There are no flowers to get nectar from. Honey keeps the hive clean. Winter honey tastes better. Beekeepers ask for it.
Main idea What is this text mostly about?
how bees turn nectar into honey how to become a beekeeper why flowers are colorful how bees build wax

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