📚 Part 1: Finding Key Details

Read both passages about butterflies. Then answer the questions below.

1. What is the main topic that both passages discuss?

How butterflies fly

Butterfly life cycles

Where butterflies live

What butterflies eat

2. Which key details appear in BOTH passages? Check all that apply.

Butterflies start as caterpillars

Butterflies have colorful wings

Butterflies drink nectar from flowers

Butterflies can migrate long distances

3. What information does Passage 1 include that Passage 2 does not?

The four stages of metamorphosis

How butterflies taste with their feet

Why butterflies are important to plants

How long butterflies live

4. What information does Passage 2 include that Passage 1 does not?

Butterflies lay eggs on leaves

Some butterflies travel thousands of miles

Butterflies have compound eyes

Caterpillars shed their skin as they grow

🔍 Part 2: Compare and Contrast

5. Complete this sentence about how the passages are similar:

Both texts tell us that butterflies _________________________________.

6. Complete this sentence about how the passages are different:

One text tells us _________________________, but the other text tells us _________________________.

7. Which passage gives more details about butterfly behavior? Explain your answer using details from the texts.

8. If you wanted to learn about how butterflies help plants, which passage would be more helpful? Why?

9. Why might two authors write about the same topic but include different information?

10. If you were writing your own passage about butterflies, what is one new fact you would want to include that wasn't in either passage?