Making Connections in Nonfiction
This worksheet helps second-grade students practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections while reading nonfiction passages.
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Read the passage carefully. Then, answer the questions by making connections to what you already know, other books you've read, or things happening in the world.
All About Bees
Bees are amazing insects! They have fuzzy bodies and six legs. Bees live in big groups called colonies. Most bees you see are worker bees. They fly from flower to flower, collecting nectar and pollen. Nectar is a sweet liquid that bees turn into honey. Pollen is like a powder that helps plants grow. When bees collect nectar and pollen, they also help flowers make seeds. This is called pollination. Without bees, many plants would not be able to grow, and we would not have many of the fruits and vegetables we eat!
1. Have you ever seen a bee? Where were you? What was it doing?
2. What is your favorite fruit or vegetable? How might bees help it grow?
3. Have you read another book or seen a show about bees or other insects? What did you learn from it that was similar or different?
4. Why are bees important to the world around us?
5. What is something people can do to help bees?
6. Bees turn nectar into .
7. Bees help flowers make seeds. This is called .
8. Without bees, we would not have many and .