By COLETTE LUBERTOZZI
10 questions
2nd - 2nd Grade
Science
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Updated Nov 2020
Journey's Unit 2 Lesson 1 Animals Building Homes is a Grade 2 English worksheet that checks students’ understanding of an informational article about how animals build and use homes. The 10 multiple-choice questions ask students to identify the article’s title, use section headings such as “Safe at Home” and “Working Together,” and locate details about beavers, birds, and other animals. Students also practice using context clues to determine the meanings of lodge, burrow, and offspring, including identifying nearby words that explain each term. The worksheet helps readers connect headings and supporting details to the article’s main ideas while building vocabulary from context. It is a free printable worksheet with a complete answer key for guided practice, independent work, or reading comprehension review.
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WorksheetsAnswer Key"Animals Building Homes"
It tells something important.
log
"Safe at Home"
"Building Nests"
a mouse
birds that carefully weave and tie knots
"Working Together"
holes in the ground
to raise their young
This Grade 2 English worksheet uses 10 multiple-choice questions to assess comprehension of “Animals Building Homes.” Students identify the article’s title and section topics, match details to sections about nests, burrows, and beaver lodges, and use context clues to determine the meanings of lodge, burrow, and offspring.
Introduce the article by previewing its title and section headings, then ask students to predict what each section may explain about animal homes. After reading, use the multiple-choice items to model how headings locate information and how nearby words, such as “holes in the ground,” clarify an unfamiliar term like burrow. Have students explain which words or section titles support each answer.
Students may choose a familiar animal or home type instead of matching a detail to the correct section heading, such as confusing “Building Nests” with “A Beaver’s Home.” They may also select a word from a context-clue sentence that sounds important rather than the phrase that defines the term, such as choosing “where some” instead of “holes in the ground” for burrow. Check that students use the surrounding words and the article’s headings as evidence.
You can assign this worksheet as a printable PDF or as a digital quiz on Wayground. It includes a complete answer key for the 10 multiple-choice questions, and printable submissions can be graded by scanning student work with the Wayground for Teachers app. The printable format also gives schools an option for reducing screen time.
In the worksheet’s Advanced Settings, adjust font spacing and font size to make the article-based questions and answer choices easier to read. You can also enable a dyslexia-friendly font or translate the worksheet into another language when appropriate for your learners. These options apply to the title, section-heading questions, and context-clue items in this worksheet.
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