Meet the Hummingbird: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The hummingbird is a bird. It lives in gardens, forests and mountains across the Americas. This place is full of trees.

The hummingbird eats flower nectar and tiny insects. It visits hundreds of flowers every day to get enough energy.

The hummingbird has wings that beat up to 80 times a second. These let it hover in one place and even fly backward. It is about 8 centimeters long.

Baby hummingbirds are called chicks. Its nest is about the size of a walnut shell and is held together with spider silk.

Questions

Details Where does the hummingbird live?
deserts and dry scrubland in the southwestern United States and Mexico the icy seas of the Arctic the cold, treeless Arctic tundra gardens, forests and mountains across the Americas
Details Which of these does the hummingbird eat?
tiny insects crickets sea urchins small fish
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the hummingbird use wings that beat up to 80 times a second?
They let it hover in one place and even fly backward. They help it dig and run along the forest floor. It lets it breathe air without lifting its whole head out of the water. They flap to cool its body on hot days.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
how its body helps it its young what it eats where the animal sleeps
Vocabulary Baby hummingbirds are called…
eaglets kits fry chicks
Inference What word best describes where the hummingbird lives?
near fresh water warm and rainy wide and open full of trees
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the camel the life of the hummingbird the life of the emperor penguin the life of the polar bear

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