Little Helpers: The Bees
Some of the busiest builders in the world are smaller than your thumb.
Did you know that about one out of every three bites of food you eat is there because of bees? When a bee visits a flower to drink sweet nectar, tiny yellow dust called pollen sticks to its fuzzy body. The bee carries that pollen to the next flower, and that is how many plants make fruit and seeds.
Bees help apples, berries, and even pumpkins grow. Without bees, our gardens and farms would grow far less food for people to eat.
You can help bees, too. Planting flowers and leaving out a shallow dish of water gives bees food and a safe place to rest. Small actions add up when everyone helps.
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Retell it: what is the topic, and what are two things you learned about bees?
Say it out loud first, then type a little. Retelling is the real reading skill — this gets saved to her report.
What is this passage mostly about?
Why did the author write this passage?
What sticks to a bee's body when it visits a flower?
How do you know bees are important to the food we eat?
Answer all 4 questions to finish. 3 of 4 right and it’s hers.