Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: The Buzz About Beekeeping

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out! This resource features an original two-page informational text about some of the benefits and drawbacks of apiculture, or beekeeping, in North America. On the last two pages of this four-page reading worksheet, learners will answer several short answer and multiple choice questions to demonstrate their understanding of the text. Fifth- and sixth-grade learners will have an opportunity to practice key reading comprehension skills, including identifying the main idea and the author’s purpose, using text features to support comprehension, identifying different effects from information in the text, evaluating a claim, and citing text evidence.