Illustrations and Key Ideas is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on using pictures and details together to explain the ideas, aligned to Common Core standard RI.1.7. 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 5 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.
Illustrations and Key Ideas
RI.1.7
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.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. What is the main idea of this text?
2. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
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. What would a diagram for this text need to show?
2. What is the main idea of this text?
LessonPrint · RI.1.7 · Set 5 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Illustrations and Key Ideas
Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Different bridge shapes hold weight in different ways. 2. A flat beam bridge and a curved arch bridge side by side.
2.1. The bee at a flower, the hive, the wax cell, and the sealed honey. 2. How bees turn flower nectar into honey, step by step.
More practice for RI.1.7
Use the pictures and details together to explain the main ideas.