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Reading Skills Practice

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Reading Skills Practice

Read the passage

The sleepy sugar glider At dusk, a sugar glider named Pip leaves a hollow in a gum tree. Sugar gliders are small marsupials that live in forests in Australia. A thin skin between each front and back leg helps Pip glide from tree to tree. Pip eats nectar, insects and sometimes fruit. During the day, Pip rests in the hollow, curled up with other sugar gliders. When night comes, the group searches for food among the branches.

Key points and details

1.Write three facts about sugar gliders from the passage.
2.Match each detail from the passage with the correct information.
  • Pip leaves the hollow
  • The skin between Pip's legs
  • During daylight
  • After dark
  • the group looks for food
  • when dusk comes
  • helps Pip glide between trees
  • Pip rests in a tree hollow
Draw a sugar glider gliding from one gum tree to another. Include one detail from the passage.

Check your understanding

3.Complete the sentences with words from the passage: Sugar gliders live in Australian . Pip rests in a tree during the day.
4.Complete the sentences with words from the passage: The skin between Pip’s legs helps Pip . At night, the group searches for .
5.Decide whether each statement is true or false. Sugar gliders are marsupials. They rest in their hollow during the day. Sugar gliders eat only fruit. Pip searches for food after dark.
TrueFalse
6.When does the group search for food? Use a detail from the passage in your answer.

2 printable pages

  • Reading Skills Practice, page 1 of 2: Read the passage, Key points and details

    Page 1

  • Reading Skills Practice, page 2 of 2: Check your understanding

    Page 2

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