Making Predictions in Nonfiction
A Grade 4 ELA worksheet focusing on making predictions while reading nonfiction texts, aligned with Common Core standards.
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Read each question carefully and make a prediction based on the information provided. Use clues from the text and your own knowledge.
The Amazing World of Bees
Bees are fascinating insects known for their ability to fly and produce honey. They live in large groups called colonies, and each colony has a queen bee, worker bees, and drone bees. Worker bees are female and do most of the work, including collecting nectar and pollen from flowers. Nectar is a sweet liquid that bees turn into honey. Pollen is a powdery substance that bees eat for protein.
When a worker bee finds a good source of nectar and pollen, she flies back to the hive and performs a special dance. This dance tells the other bees where to find the food. Bees are very important for our planet because they help plants grow by spreading pollen from flower to flower. This process is called pollination.
1. Based on the passage, what do you predict would happen to plants if there were no bees?
2. The passage mentions that worker bees collect nectar. What do you predict worker bees do with the nectar once they bring it back to the hive?
3. If a bee colony is running low on honey, what would you predict the worker bees would do?
Fly away and find a new colony.
Search for more flowers to collect nectar.
Ask the queen bee to make more honey.
Stop flying until the honey returns.
4. If a bee performs a special dance after finding food, I predict the other bees will .
5. Since bees are important for pollination, I predict that without bees, many plants would .
6. True or False: If a bee colony has many drone bees, you can predict that the colony is very active in making honey.
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False
7. Look at the image of the open book below. Based on the title "The Mystery of the Rainforest," what do you predict this book will be about?
