What is nectar?
Read an Informational Passage · ELPAC Grade 1 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
A longer factual text, with questions about the main idea, supporting details and vocabulary.
Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
Bees and Flowers
Bees are small. They fly from flower to flower. A bee drinks sweet juice from a flower. We call this juice nectar.
Yellow dust sticks to the bee's legs. This dust is called pollen. The bee takes the pollen to the next flower. That helps new flowers grow.
Bees take the nectar back home. They make honey with it. People eat the honey too.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What is nectar?
- Yellow dust on a bee's legs
- Sweet juice from a flowerCorrect answer
- A small bee
- A kind of flower
Why “Sweet juice from a flower” is correct
This is a vocabulary-in-context question, and the passage defines the word in the sentence immediately after it first appears: 'We call this juice nectar.' Teach the child to look at the sentence next door to a hard word, because informational texts almost always explain a term right where they introduce it.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Yellow dust on a bee's legs — Yellow dust is the passage's description of pollen, which is the other thing bees carry.
- A small bee — Nectar is something a bee drinks, not a kind of bee.
- A kind of flower — Nectar comes from a flower, but it is the juice inside, not the flower itself.
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