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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.

Bats

Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Their wings are made of thin skin stretched between long finger bones. Most bats come out at night. They find their way by making high squeaks. The squeaks bounce off things and come back. The bat listens to the echo and knows what is ahead. Many bats eat insects. One small bat can eat a thousand insects in a night.

  1. 1. Why did the author write this text?
  2. 2. The author says bats are unusual mammals. What reason is given?
  3. 3. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Milk Gets to the Shop

A dairy cow is milked twice a day, in the morning and the evening. The milk goes straight into a cold tank. Cold milk keeps fresh much longer than warm milk. A tanker takes the milk to a dairy. There it is heated for a few seconds to kill germs, then cooled again fast. This is called pasteurising. Last, the milk is poured into bottles and driven to the shop.

  1. 1. Why is the milk heated for a few seconds?
  2. 2. Why did the author write this text?
  3. 3. Summarise this text in one sentence.

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Answer key — Clearing Something Up

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To teach us facts about bats and how they fly and hunt. 2. They are the only mammals that can fly. 3. Bats are the only flying mammals; they use squeaks and echoes at night and eat huge numbers of insects.
  2. 2.1. To kill germs. 2. To explain how milk gets from a cow to a shop. 3. Milk is taken from the cow twice a day, cooled, pasteurised at the dairy, bottled and driven to the shop.

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