Two Texts, One Topic is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on comparing two information texts on one topic, aligned to Common Core standard RI.1.9. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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 2 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Two Texts, One Topic
RI.1.9
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Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.
1.Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.
Text 1: 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 is the main idea of this text?
2.Now read Text 2 and answer these questions about BOTH texts.
Text 2: 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. How is milk different from honey?
2. How is making milk ready like making honey?
3. How is making honey like building a nest?
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Answer key — Two Texts, One Topic
Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. How bees turn flower nectar into honey, step by step.
2.1. Milk comes from a cow and is heated by people; honey is made by bees from nectar. 2. Both follow a fixed set of steps — nectar to honey, and milk from cow to shop — before the food reaches people. 3. Both are done in a fixed order with materials gathered outside — nectar for honey, twigs for a nest.
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