Farmers Feed Us: Grade 2 Reading Passage

About this worksheet

A community helpers passage about farmers: crops, tractors, dairy cows, chickens and animals that need care every single day. A free printable 2nd grade nonfiction passage (103 words) with multiple-choice what questions, true-or-false sentences, fill-in-the-blanks with a word bank and a short written answer. Answer key on page 2. Second graders usually finish it in 10 to 15 minutes, reading the text twice before the questions.

On this sheet

Have you ever thought about where your food comes from? Much of it starts on a farm. Farmers are community helpers who grow the food we eat. Some farmers grow crops like corn, wheat, apples and carrots. They plant seeds in the spring, water the plants and pull weeds. Tractors help them plow the fields and bring in the crops. Other farmers raise animals. Dairy cows give milk, which can be made into cheese, butter and yogurt. Chickens lay eggs. Farm animals need care every single day, even on holidays.

Tips for using it

• Before reading, look at the picture and the title together and guess what the passage will be about.
• Ask your child to underline the sentence in the passage that proves each answer.
• Talk about the story afterwards: what was the problem, how was it solved, and what would your child have done?

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. The PNG shows page 1 only. Free for personal, family and classroom use.