A four-paragraph passage of about 300 words opens this 4th grade reading worksheet on how flowers attract pollinators. It covers bees and ultraviolet patterns, hummingbirds and red tube-shaped flowers, and white night flowers visited by moths and bats. Page 2 has four multiple choice questions. Page 3 has a flower-to-pollinator match and three short answers that ask for evidence from the text. The answers page follows.
“Answer questions about key details in an informational text.”
Questions 1 to 4 on page 2 check colors, feeding and the night flowers.
“Use evidence from the passage to support an answer.”
Questions 6 and 8 ask for details from the text.
“Work out what a word means from the paragraph around it.”
Question 4 asks what nectar is.
“Explain why an author uses a comparison.”
Question 7 asks about the airport runway lights comparison.
Four paragraphs with a photo of a hummingbird at a red trumpet flower and a daisy below it. Paragraph 1 introduces nectar, and the next three take bees, hummingbirds and night flowers in turn.
Four multiple choice questions with four options each: the colors bees like, how hummingbirds eat from flowers, why night flowers are pale, and what nectar is.
A table that matches a red tube flower, a white night flower with a strong scent and a yellow daisy with ultraviolet stripes to hummingbird, moth or bee. Three written questions follow, on why beetles and bees cannot reach hummingbird nectar, the airport runway lights comparison, and which pollinator would visit a red trumpet flower with no smell.
The letters for questions 1 to 4, the completed match, and model answers to questions 6 to 8, with the quoted phrase airport runway lights.
Underline while reading
Have students underline one clue for each pollinator as they read. The match on page 3 then takes about a minute.
Comparison mini-lesson
Question 7 asks for the phrase about airport runway lights. Use it to show what a comparison does for a reader who has never seen ultraviolet light.
After a pollination lesson
Use it once students know why a bee visits a flower. The reading can then stay on the evidence instead of the basics.
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