Meet the Springbok: Grade 3 Reading Comprehension

The springbok is a mammal. It lives in the dry grasslands and deserts of southern Africa. This place is hot and dry.

The springbok eats grasses, shrubs and succulent leaves. It bounces straight up with stiff legs, called pronking, to show predators it is too fit to catch.

The springbok has long, springy legs. These let it run fast and leap high to escape predators. It is about 80 centimeters tall at the shoulder.

A newborn lies hidden in the grass for its first days while its mother feeds nearby.

Questions

Details Where does the springbok live?
the rainforests of Central and South America the dry grasslands and deserts of southern Africa rivers, streams and ponds in North America and Europe the ice and cold seas of Antarctica
Details Which of these does the springbok eat?
shrubs wild pigs small rodents fish
Cause and effect According to the passage, how does the springbok use long, springy legs?
It keeps it warm in freezing prairie winds. It lets it reach leaves high in trees. They let it hang from branches for hours without tiring. They let it run fast and leap high to escape predators.
Main idea What is paragraph 2 mostly about?
where the animal sleeps why some animals are in danger how its body helps it what it eats
Inference What word best describes where the springbok lives?
full of trees warm and rainy wide and open hot and dry
Main idea What is this passage mostly about?
the life of the fennec fox the life of the springbok the life of the polar bear the life of the humpback whale

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