Meet the Salmon: Grade 2 Reading Comprehension

The salmon is a fish. It lives in the oceans and the rivers that flow into them. Its home is near fresh water.

The salmon eats insects, shrimp and small fish. It swims back to the stream where it hatched to lay its eggs.

The salmon has a strong, muscular body. This lets it swim upstream and leap up waterfalls. It is about 70 centimeters long for many kinds.

Baby salmon are called fry. Young salmon stay in rivers for months or years before swimming out to sea.

Questions

Details Where does the salmon live?
the cold, treeless Arctic tundra grasslands and open forests across Australia cool, misty mountain forests in China the oceans and the rivers that flow into them
Details Which of these does the salmon eat?
stems leaves small fish lemmings
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the salmon use a strong, muscular body?
They help it dig and run along the forest floor. It lets it swim upstream and leap up waterfalls. They spread its weight so it does not sink into snow or break thin ice. They reach nectar deep inside flowers.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
what it eats how scientists count animals why some animals are in danger its young
Vocabulary Baby salmon are called…
fry tadpoles hatchlings eaglets
Inference What word best describes where the salmon lives?
hot and dry freezing cold near fresh water deep and salty
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the red-eyed tree frog the colors of insects the life of the humpback whale the life of the salmon

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