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Clearing Something Up is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on checking you have understood what a text told you, aligned to Common Core standard SL.1.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with 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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Clearing Something Up

SL.1.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What Roots Do

Roots grow down while the stem grows up. They do two jobs. First, roots hold the plant in the ground. A tall tree in a storm stays up because its roots spread wide under the soil. Second, roots drink. Tiny hairs on the roots take in water from the soil. The water travels up the stem to the leaves. A plant with damaged roots wilts, even if it is watered.

  1. 1. Why did the author write this text?
  2. 2. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  3. 3. The author says a plant with damaged roots wilts. What reason is given?
2.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. Summarise this text in one sentence.
  2. 2. Why do the bees fan the cell with their wings?
  3. 3. Why did the author write this text?

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Answer key — Clearing Something Up

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To explain the two jobs roots do. 2. Roots hold a plant steady in the soil and take up the water that travels to its leaves. 3. Because the roots are what take in water, so watering it does not help.
  2. 2.1. Bees collect nectar, chew it, store it in wax cells and fan it dry until it becomes honey. 2. To dry the water out of the nectar. 3. To explain how honey is made.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.1.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.