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.
Set 14 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
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.
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. Why do the bees fan the cell with their wings?
2. Why did the author write this text?
3. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
How a Bridge Stands Up
A bridge has to hold its own weight and the weight of everything crossing it.
The simplest bridge is a beam: a flat piece laid across a gap. A beam bridge cannot be very long, or it sags in the middle.
An arch bridge is curved. The curve pushes the weight out to the ends, where the ground is solid. That is why arch bridges can cross wider gaps.
1. Why does the author say arch bridges can cross wider gaps?
2. Summarise this text in one sentence.
3. Why did the author write this text?
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Answer key — Clearing Something Up
Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. To dry the water out of the nectar. 2. To explain how honey is made. 3. Bees collect nectar, chew it, store it in wax cells and fan it dry until it becomes honey.
2.1. Because the curve sends the weight out to the ends where the ground is solid. 2. Bridges must hold weight, and an arch does it over a wider gap than a flat beam can. 3. To explain how bridges hold up weight.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to SL.1.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.