3rd Grade · Reading Comprehension
Busy Honeybees
Free printable 3rd Grade reading comprehension worksheet: Busy Honeybees. It practices main idea (Common Core RI.3.2). For ages 8-9. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 3rd Grade
- Subject
- Reading Comprehension
- Skill
- Main idea
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- RI.3.2
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Busy Honeybees” is sheet 2 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on main idea, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “The Lemonade Stand” and before “The Lost Library Book”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RI.3.2 · Common Core English Language Arts · Grade 3
Reading: Informational Text · Key ideas and details
Children work on finding the central message or main idea and retelling or summarizing what was read.
More main idea worksheets
The other 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension sheets on main idea, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Ask your child to underline the sentence that proves each answer before writing it. Finding evidence is the skill 3rd grade tests most.
- 2
Read the questions first on nonfiction passages. Knowing what to look for turns reading into a search, which keeps attention on the text.
- 3
Encourage complete sentences that restate the question: “Nora opened a lemonade stand because…”
