Main Idea and Supporting Details

Grade 4 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence

Read the text. Circle the answer to each question.

1. Read this first

   How Bees Make Honey

   Honey starts as nectar, a sweet juice inside flowers. A worker bee sips the nectar with her long tongue. She stores it in a special honey stomach and flies back to the hive.

   At the hive, the bee passes the nectar to other workers. They chew it and spread it into wax cells. Fanning wings dry the nectar until it thickens into honey.

   Bees seal each full cell with a wax lid. The honey keeps there as food for winter, when no flowers bloom. One hive can store enough to feed thousands of bees for months.

2. 1.

   What is the main idea of the whole text?

   • Bees sting people.
   • Bees like flowers.
   • Bees make honey.
3. 2.

   What is the main idea of paragraph 1?

   • Bees dry nectar.
   • Bees seal cells.
   • Bees get nectar.
4. 3.

   Which detail supports the main idea of paragraph 1?

   • Wax lids seal cells.
   • Wings dry nectar.
   • A bee sips nectar.
5. 4.

   What is the main idea of paragraph 2?

   • Workers make honey.
   • Bees seal cells.
   • Bees get nectar.
6. 5.

   Which detail supports the main idea of paragraph 2?

   • Wings dry nectar.
   • A bee sips nectar.
   • Wax lids seal cells.
7. 6.

   What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

   • Bees get nectar.
   • Honey feeds bees.
   • Bees dry nectar.
8. 7.

   Which detail supports the main idea of paragraph 3?

   • A bee sips nectar.
   • Wings dry nectar.
   • One hive feeds many.
9. 8.

   Which detail does not belong in this text?

   • A bee sips nectar.
   • Wings dry nectar.
   • Ants dig tunnels.