Meet the Kangaroo: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The kangaroo is a mammal. It lives in grasslands and open forests across Australia. This place is wide and open.

The kangaroo eats grasses and leaves. It rests in the shade during the hottest part of the day and feeds in the cool evening.

The kangaroo has powerful back legs. These let it hop more than 50 kilometers an hour. It is about 2 meters tall when standing.

Baby kangaroos are called joeys. A joey lives in its mother's pouch for about eight months.

Questions

Details Where does the kangaroo live?
grasslands and open forests across Australia near lakes, rivers and coasts across North America the northern forests of Canada, the northern United States and Alaska cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean
Details Which of these does the kangaroo eat?
sea lions voles shrimp grasses
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the kangaroo use powerful back legs?
They sweep snow aside to reach the grass underneath. It keeps water inside its body in dry places. They let it hop more than 50 kilometers an hour. It wraps around branches and avoids sharp thorns.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
how its body helps it what it eats how scientists count animals where the animal sleeps
Vocabulary Baby kangaroos are called…
hatchlings eaglets tadpoles joeys
Inference What word best describes where the kangaroo lives?
near fresh water hot and dry deep and salty wide and open
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the colors of grasses the life of the polar bear the life of the kangaroo the life of the red-eyed tree frog

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