Informational Text Assessment Worksheet
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Informational Text Assessment Worksheet
A Journey Across Generations
Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies travel from the United States and Canada to warmer places in Mexico. Some fly more than 2,000 miles. Unlike birds, monarchs do not make the entire round trip in one lifetime. The butterflies that begin the journey south may live for several months. Their great-grandchildren will make the return trip north in spring. How do monarchs find their way? Scientists think the butterflies use the position of the sun and an internal compass. They also respond to changes in temperature and daylight. These clues help them travel toward forests in central Mexico, where they gather in large groups on tree branches. The forests provide a cool, sheltered place for the butterflies to spend the winter. In spring, the monarchs begin moving north. Along the way, they lay eggs on milkweed plants. Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed leaves as they grow. After changing into butterflies, the next generations continue north. Because milkweed is essential to young monarchs, planting native milkweed can help provide food for them. Monarchs face challenges during migration. Storms can make flying difficult, and loss of habitat means fewer places to find food and shelter. Protecting milkweed and the forests where monarchs overwinter can help these remarkable travelers.
Read for Meaning
Use evidence from the article when a question asks you to explain your thinking.
- Monarch butterflies migrate over many generations and need suitable places to survive.
- Monarch butterflies spend their entire lives in one forest.
- Scientists have taught monarchs to use an internal compass.
- All butterflies travel to Mexico every winter.
- It compares monarchs with several other insects.
- It describes migration, explains how it happens, and discusses challenges.
- It lists a problem and gives one step-by-step solution.
- It tells the events of one butterfly's life in a diary.
- React
- Hide
- Remember
- Compete
- Monarch butterflies are the most amazing travelers in the world.
- Some monarchs fly more than 2,000 miles.
- Every person should plant milkweed.
- Mexico has the prettiest forests.
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