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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.

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 did the author write this text?
  2. 2. Why do the bees fan the cell with their wings?
  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 4. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To explain how honey is made. 2. To dry the water out of the nectar. 3. Bees collect nectar, chew it, store it in wax cells and fan it dry until it becomes honey.
  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.