Meet the Sea Otter: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The sea otter is a mammal. It lives in cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean. Its home is deep and salty.

The sea otter eats sea urchins, crabs and clams. It floats on its back and cracks shellfish open by smashing them on a rock resting on its chest.

The sea otter has the thickest fur of any animal. This keeps it warm, since it has no blubber. It is about 1.2 meters long.

Baby sea otters are called pups. A pup rides on its mother's belly while she floats on the water.

Questions

Details Where does the sea otter live?
gardens, forests and mountains across the Americas the rainforests of Central and South America cold coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean the warm, wet rainforests of Central America
Details Which of these does the sea otter eat?
thorny plants clams eucalyptus leaves tiny insects
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the sea otter use the thickest fur of any animal?
It lets it spot fish from high in the sky. They let it grab and tear its prey. They flap to cool its body on hot days. It keeps it warm, since it has no blubber.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
where the animal sleeps how scientists count animals what it eats how its body helps it
Vocabulary Baby sea otters are called…
cubs pups hatchlings calves
Inference What word best describes where the sea otter lives?
near fresh water deep and salty warm and rainy wide and open
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the red-eyed tree frog the life of the sea otter the life of the humpback whale how to keep a pet

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