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 9 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.
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. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2. The author says seeds have to move away. What reason is given?
3. Why did the author write this text?
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. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2. Why do the bees fan the cell with their wings?
3. Why did the author write this text?
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Answer key — Clearing Something Up
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Seeds must leave their parent's shadow, and they do it by spinning, hooking onto fur, or riding inside fruit. 2. There is not enough light in the parent's shadow. 3. To explain the different ways seeds move away from their parent plant.
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.