Meet the Beaver: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The beaver is a mammal. It lives in rivers, streams and ponds in North America and Europe. This place is near fresh water.

The beaver eats tree bark, twigs and water plants. It builds dams of sticks and mud that turn streams into ponds.

The beaver has large orange front teeth that never stop growing. These let it chew through tree trunks. It is about 1 meter long, including its tail.

Baby beavers are called kits. Kits can swim within a day of being born but stay with their family for about two years.

Questions

Details Where does the beaver live?
gardens, hedges and woodland across the UK, Ireland and Europe the dry grasslands and deserts of southern Africa rivers, streams and ponds in North America and Europe cool coastal waters in oceans around the world
Details Which of these does the beaver eat?
water plants roots and fruit beetles insects
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the beaver use large orange front teeth that never stop growing?
It helps it warm up after cold desert nights. They let it snatch fish out of the water. They feel for clams on the dark sea floor. They let it chew through tree trunks.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
what it eats how its body helps it why some animals are in danger where the animal sleeps
Vocabulary Baby beavers are called…
pups hatchlings joeys kits
Inference What word best describes where the beaver lives?
warm and rainy wide and open near fresh water deep and salty
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
how to keep a pet the life of the beaver the colors of tree bark the life of the polar bear

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