Sniff, Dig, Eat, Sleep: teacher key

Grizzly Bears, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. A grizzly sniffs out food, digs with long claws and eats all year. Then it sleeps in a den.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

What can lead a grizzly to food from far away?
- Its tail
- Its nose (answer)
- Its fur
What do grizzlies eat in spring?
- New green grasses and other young plants (answer)
- Snow and ice
- Only fish
Where can a winter den be?
- At the top of a tree
- Under a lake
- In a hole dug into a hillside (answer)
A grizzly eats berries and it eats fish. What does that tell you?
- It eats only plants
- It eats plants and animals (answer)
- It eats only animals
Cubs nurse in the den. What does nurse mean?
- Drink milk (answer)
- Dig a hole
- Run fast