Make sure students understand the directions. Discuss what students need to do to produce quality responses for each of the question types. They will need the prior knowledge of the content of the story, how to write a letter in proper format, how to create a graphic organizer, how to determine cause and effect, how to develop a scheme for classification, and how to classify items. Worker Ants Ants mainly live in large groups. As many as a million ants may live in one colony.
Ants build nests either on or in the ground or in trees.
Inside are food stores and chambers for eggs, larvae, and pupae. Each ant colony has a queen. After mating with a winged male, the queen spends the rest of her life laying eggs. The small wingless female ants, called workers, cannot lay eggs. Their job is to look after the nest.