Name

Date:

MAKE AN INFERENCE!
Directions: Using the three clues for each number, figure out what is being described
use whats in your mind to read between the lines!
1)

4 LEGS

FUR

BARKS

2)

BRIGHT COLORS

FLIES

TALKS

3)

GOOEY

CIRCLE

TASTY

4)

BRIGHT

BURNING

MORNING

5)

WATER

SALT

HUGE

6)

TEACHER

MALE

MATH

7)
SPINNING CLOUDS
WIND

POUNDING RAIN

STRONG

PRACTICE: MAKING INFERENCES BASED ON

INFORMATIONAL TEXT
DIRECTIONS: Read the following paragraph carefully. Then
answer the questions about it.
A hive of honeybees includes many worker bees that collect nectar to
make honey. The workers do not fly around randomly looking for flowers.
Instead, a single bee locates the flowers and returns to the hive. The scout
bee performs a sequence of motions, a type of dance, that the other
workers watch. Scout dances are not always alikethey vary in type of
motion, direction of motion, and speed. After the dance, many other bees,
the foragers, fly to the flowers and collect nectar. Even if the scout remains
in the hive, the other bees have no trouble locating the flowers.

1.
What can you infer about the ability of insects to communicate with
one another?
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2.
What can you infer from the fact that the scout bee does not have to
lead the rest of the bees to the flowers?
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3.

How do you think the scouts give directions to the forager?

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4.

Do you think that bees have the ability to remember where they have
been? Why?

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