Meet the Honeybee: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The honeybee is a insect. It lives in hives in meadows, gardens and forests around the world. This place is wide and open.

The honeybee eats flower nectar and pollen. It does a waggle dance to tell other bees where to find flowers.

The honeybee has hairy legs with tiny baskets. These carry pollen back to the hive. It is about 1.5 centimeters long.

Baby honeybees are called larvae. Worker bees feed the larvae and keep them warm inside wax cells.

Questions

Details Where does the honeybee live?
oceans around the world, from shallow reefs to the deep sea the rainforests of Central and South America hives in meadows, gardens and forests around the world hot, dry deserts in Africa and Asia
Details Which of these does the honeybee eat?
shrimp insects small fish pollen
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the honeybee use hairy legs with tiny baskets?
They let it grab and tear its prey. They reach nectar deep inside flowers. They carry pollen back to the hive. They warn birds that it tastes bad.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
how its body helps it what it eats why some animals are in danger its young
Vocabulary Baby honeybees are called…
fry owlets eaglets larvae
Inference What word best describes where the honeybee lives?
deep and salty full of trees wide and open near fresh water
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the honeybee the life of the polar bear the life of the fennec fox the colors of flower nectar

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