Meet the Komodo Dragon: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The Komodo dragon is a reptile. It lives in a few hot, dry islands in Indonesia. Its home is wide and open.

The Komodo dragon eats deer, pigs and water buffalo. It lies in wait beside trails and ambushes animals that pass by.

The Komodo dragon has a forked tongue. This picks up scents from several kilometers away. It is about 3 meters long.

Baby Komodo dragons are called hatchlings. Hatchlings live in trees for their first few years to stay safe from larger Komodo dragons.

Questions

Details Where does the Komodo dragon live?
the oceans and the rivers that flow into them the ice and cold seas of Antarctica a few hot, dry islands in Indonesia eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia
Details Which of these does the Komodo dragon eat?
pollen sea grass bark deer
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the Komodo dragon use a forked tongue?
They help it lose less heat in the cold. They let it creep up silently. They crush tough bamboo. It picks up scents from several kilometers away.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
what it eats why some animals are in danger where the animal sleeps where it lives
Vocabulary Baby Komodo dragons are called…
fry larvae chicks hatchlings
Inference What word best describes where the Komodo dragon lives?
wide and open warm and rainy freezing cold deep and salty
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the red-eyed tree frog the life of the camel the life of the Komodo dragon the life of the fennec fox

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