Red Rocket Readers
Making Honey
Bad dreams written by Rosalind Hayhoe
"Do you know how bees make honey? Bees make honey to eat in the winter when there are not many flowers around. Beekeepers get the honey out of beehives for us to eat."
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• Use Teacher Talk to stimulate discussion of topic. • Develop research skills based on this topic. • Use Table of Contents to locate specific information. • Refer to Glossary to clarify basic concepts. • Identify soft c sound: cell • Use initial letter plus picture clues to read unknown words. • Notice compound words: honeycomb inside beeswax • Use captions to expand on text. • Promote drama, writing or art as follow-up activities.
Word Count = 220
Contents Hives Bees Honeycomb Flowers Nectar Beeswax Beekeepers Honey
Page 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16
First published in 2006 by Red Rocket Readers, an imprint of Flying Start Books Ltd. Reprinted 2007, 2009. 2 Birkdale Road, Verrans Corner, Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand. story © Rosalind Hayhoe ISBN 978-1-877435-08-9 Printed in New Zealand Photo researcher Rosalind Hayhoe Photographs on pages 2 and 14 supplied by www.stockcentral.co.nz All other photographs supplied by Jupiter Unlimited This book is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission in writing from the publisher. www.redrocketreaders.com
written by Rosalind Hayhoe
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Bees have been making honey for millions of years! Honey is food for bees.
They make honey in their homes, which are called hives.
beehives 2
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A queen bee lives in a hive , with some bees called drones.
There are thousands of worker bees, too. They look after the hive and make the honey.
hive 4
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honeycomb
The bees make a honeycomb to keep their honey in. It is made from beeswax. 6
It has holes in it that are a hexagon shape. They are called cells. 7
nectar
Bees have two stomachs. One is for food and one is just for carrying nectar. 8
Bees fly from flower to flower and suck out the sweet nectar from inside. 9
swarm of bees
The bees fly back to the hive when their honey stomachs are full. 10
They put the nectar into the honeycomb cells so it can turn into honey. 11
beeswax
The bees make their wings go up and down quickly. , That helps to dry the nectar. 12
The nectar turns into honey. Then they put some beeswax over the top of each cell. 13
beekeepers
Beekeepers can get the honey out of the hives. They cut out the honeycomb when it is full of honey. 14
Beekeepers have to wear special clothes so that they don't get bee stings! 15
We can eat honey from a honeycomb or from a jar. Honey is our food from the bees!
honey 16
Glossary
beeswax
ellow wax that bees use to make y honeycombs
cell
one hole in the honeycomb
hexagon
a shape with six sides
honeycomb
place to store honey made a from beeswax
hive
a home for bees
nectar
sweet juice from inside a flower
stomach
art of the body where food is p held
swarm
a large group of bees
Early Level 4
Non-Fiction Set A Guided R/R DRA Reading Intervention Level G-H
12-14
12-14
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