Meet the Sea Turtle: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The sea turtle is a reptile. It lives in warm oceans around the world. Its home is deep and salty.

The sea turtle eats sea grass, jellyfish and crabs. It swims thousands of kilometers but returns to the beach where it hatched to lay its own eggs.

The sea turtle has flippers shaped like paddles. These push it through the water. It is about 1 meter long for most kinds.

Baby sea turtles are called hatchlings. Hatchlings dig out of the sand at night and race toward the bright, open ocean.

Questions

Details Where does the sea turtle live?
the rainforests of Central and South America warm oceans around the world forests and scrubland across New Zealand fields and meadows across North America
Details Which of these does the sea turtle eat?
leaves fish crabs small fish
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the sea turtle use flippers shaped like paddles?
They push it through the water. It lets it move between the ocean and rivers. It lets it find animals moving under the snow. They keep blowing sand out of its eyes.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
how scientists count animals how its body helps it why some animals are in danger what it eats
Vocabulary Baby sea turtles are called…
kits pups eaglets hatchlings
Inference What word best describes where the sea turtle lives?
freezing cold deep and salty full of trees warm and rainy
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the red-eyed tree frog the life of the fennec fox the life of the sea turtle how to keep a pet

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