Text Features
This graphic feature shows the decline in bee population over time
What is a bar graph?
The main purpose of this passage is to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is to inform?
Bees help produce this much of the food we eat.
What is one-third?
In the sentence "We mustn't ignore this problem," "mustn't" could also be written as.
What is must not.
This punctuation mark is used after "Did you know that"
What is a question mark?
This text feature labels sections of the text.
What is headings?
"As busy as bees" is an example of an idiom, what does it mean?
What is very busy or very active?
This is the name for a large group of bees.
What is a colony?
The sentence "There isn't no way to help" contains this grammatical error.
What is a double negative?
Add commas where needed in this sentence: "Bees collect pollen make honey and pollinate flowers."
What is "Bees collect pollen, make honey, and pollinate flowers."?
What visual element shows the part of the bee?
What is a diagram?
The phrase "heart of the colony" to describe the queen bee is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
Worker bees use this to communicate the location of food sources.
What is a waggle dance?
The correct way to write the contraction for "is not" is this.
What is isn't?
The correct placement of commas in a series is demonstrated in this sentence about worker bees' jobs.
What is "Worker bees collect nectar, make honey, and take care of the young bees."?
This type of visual text feature could be used to show the hierarchy of bees in a colony, with the queen bee at the top and worker bees below.
What is a chart?
Find an example in the passage where the author uses a fact with precise numbers to provide specific information about bees.
What is "A typical colony can have up to 60,000 bees!" or "one-third of the food we eat depends on pollinators like bees"?
The passage suggests doing these two things to help bees.
What are planting bee-friendly flowers and avoiding pesticides?
In the phrase "collect nectar, make honey, and take care of the young bees," this is used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
Add quotation marks to this sentence to show the exact words spoken: The teacher said, Remember to bring your science project tomorrow.
What is 'The teacher said, "Remember to bring your science project tomorrow."'?
This year had the highest year of bee decline according to the graph
By describing bees as "busy little workers" and mentioning their importance to our food supply, the author is trying to create this feeling in the reader.
What is appreciation or concern for bees?
This bee is described as the "heart of the colony."
Who is the queen bee?
The correct way to fix the double negative in "There isn't no way to help" is this.
What is "There is no way to help" or "There isn't any way to help"?
This punctuation is used to create emphasis in the sentence: "Bees are incredible insects!"
What is an exclamation point?