Making Connections in Nonfiction
A Grade 3 ELA worksheet focusing on making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections in nonfiction texts.
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Read the passage below about honeybees. Then, answer the questions by making connections between the text and your own life, other books you've read, or the world around you.
The Busy Life of a Honeybee
Honeybees are amazing insects! They live together in large groups called colonies, often in a hive. Each bee has a special job. Worker bees, who are all female, 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, and bees eat it too. They carry these back to the hive in tiny baskets on their legs. Inside the hive, other worker bees build honeycomb, clean the hive, and take care of baby bees. The queen bee's most important job is to lay eggs. Without her, the colony would not grow. All honeybees work together to keep their colony healthy and make delicious honey!
1. Text-to-Self: What is something you learned about honeybees that surprised you or reminded you of something in your own life? Explain your connection.
2. Text-to-Text: Have you ever read another book or seen a show about bees or other insects that work together? How is the information in this passage similar to or different from what you already knew?
3. Text-to-World: How do honeybees help the world around us, based on what you read? Can you think of any other ways that insects or animals help people or the planet?
Use the words from the passage to complete the sentences below.
4. Honeybees live in large groups called .
5. Worker bees collect and from flowers.
6. The queen bee's job is to lay .
Read each statement and circle True or False.
7. All worker bees are male.
True
False
8. Bees turn pollen into honey.
True
False