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Answer from the Text is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on answering a question using a source you were given, aligned to Common Core standard W.1.8. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Answer from the Text

W.1.8

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

From Flower to Jar

A honeybee visits about a hundred flowers on one trip. She sucks up nectar and stores it in a special stomach. Back at the hive, she passes the nectar to another bee. That bee chews it for about half an hour. Then it goes into a wax cell. The bees fan the cell with their wings. The water dries out and the nectar thickens into honey. Then the cell is sealed with wax.

  1. 1. Why do the bees fan the cell with their wings?
  2. 2. The nectar "thickens". What does that mean?
  3. 3. What do the bees use to seal the cell?
  4. 4. Where does the bee store the nectar on the way home?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Seeds Travel

A seed cannot grow in its parent's shadow. There is not enough light. So seeds have to move away. Some seeds have wings. A sycamore seed spins like a tiny helicopter and lands far from the tree. Some seeds hook onto fur. A burr catches on a passing fox and drops off somewhere new. Some seeds sit inside fruit. A bird eats the fruit and the seed comes out later, miles away.

  1. 1. The author says seeds have to move away. What reason is given?
  2. 2. What does a sycamore seed do as it falls?
  3. 3. Why can a seed not grow in its parent's shadow?
  4. 4. What is a "burr"?

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Answer key — Answer from the Text

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To dry the water out of the nectar. 2. It gets thicker and less runny. 3. Wax. 4. In a special stomach.
  2. 2.1. There is not enough light in the parent's shadow. 2. It spins like a tiny helicopter. 3. There is not enough light. 4. A seed with hooks that catch on fur.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to W.1.8 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.