Hive Inquiry

This structured reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen understanding, strategy awareness, and scientific literacy through an engaging informational passage about honeybees. Students first answer comprehension questions in complete sentences, then identify the QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) type for each question, encouraging them to reflect on how and where they found their answers.

Learning Goals

• Applying QAR Strategies (Grades 4-6): Identify Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, and On My Own questions accurately.
• Answering with Understanding: Write clear, complete responses based on the passage or personal reasoning.
• Source Identification for Answers: Analyze whether answers come directly from the text, across multiple sections, or from prior knowledge.
• Science Literacy Development: Understand key information about honeybee roles and their importance.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support upper elementary ELA and science standards.
• Two-Step Thinking Process: Combines comprehension with metacognitive reflection.
• Builds Strategic Readers: Helps students become aware of how they approach different question types.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for guided reading, science literacy blocks, homework, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen comprehension while becoming more intentional about their reading strategies. By answering questions and then identifying the QAR type, learners strengthen critical thinking, strategy awareness, and confidence in tackling informational texts. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with QAR application, evidence-based reasoning, and science-focused reading comprehension.

This worksheet is part of our QAR (question-answer relationships) worksheets collection.