What Plants Need Cloze

Year 2 SciencePlants3 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 2 science cloze on what plants need to grow. The word bank has twelve words and one of them (cold) is not needed. Pupils fill eleven gaps in four paragraphs: seeds in soil, roots drinking water, leaves reaching for light, and the need to stay warm. One line says a plant hidden in a dark cupboard turns pale. A picture shows a bean plant on a sunny windowsill. Plant Check asks for the three key needs. The answer key lists the gaps in order. It matches the England National Curriculum objective on water, light and temperature.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Plants

โ€œFind out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.โ€

Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 each cover one need, and the Plant Check asks pupils to name all three.

What's inside this worksheet

What Plants Need to Grow

The instructions and a word bank of warm, roots, seeds, cold, healthy, water, green, soil, light, grow, leaves and sun.

How Plants Live and Grow

Four paragraphs with eleven gaps that move from seed to roots to leaves to warmth.

Plant Check

Pupils name the three things a plant needs to grow well and stay healthy.

How teachers use it

Bean test

Put one bean plant in the dark cupboard the passage mentions and one on the windowsill. Compare them a week later.

Read it aloud first

Read the passage with a hum at each gap. Many pupils hear the missing word before they find it in the bank.

Why not cold

Ask why cold is the spare word. It leads into a talk about frost and gardens in winter.

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