1st grade nonfiction passage about measuring temperature: 92 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
How hot is it outside? How cold is it? A thermometer can tell you.
A thermometer is a tool that measures heat. Many have a thin glass tube with a line of liquid inside. They also have numbers on the side.
When the air gets warm, the liquid goes up the tube. When the air gets cold, the liquid goes down. You read the number where the liquid stops.
A high number means it is hot. A low number means it is cold. People use a thermometer to know what to wear.
What does a thermometer measure? in the text
What is inside the thin glass tube? in the text
What does the liquid do when the air gets warm? in the text
The liquid stops at a low number. Is it hot or cold outside? think about it
Why do people use a thermometer? in the text
The same topic and facts written three ways, so a mixed class can read and talk about one text. Each group’s sheet shows only a shape; the key says which is which.
How hot is it? How cold is it? A thermometer can tell you.
A thermometer is a tool. It measures heat. Many have a thin glass tube with a line of liquid in it. They have numbers on the side.
When the air is warm, the liquid goes up. When the air is cold, the liquid goes down. You read the number where it stops.
A high number means hot. A low number means cold. People use it to know what to wear.
How hot is it outside? How cold is it? A thermometer can tell you.
A thermometer is a tool that measures heat. Many have a thin glass tube with a line of liquid inside. They also have numbers on the side.
When the air gets warm, the liquid goes up the tube. When the air gets cold, the liquid goes down. You read the number where the liquid stops.
A high number means it is hot. A low number means it is cold. People use a thermometer to know what to wear.
How hot is it outside today, and how cold is it? A thermometer can give you the answer.
A thermometer is a tool that measures how much heat is in something. Many of them have a long, thin glass tube with a line of liquid inside. Numbers are printed along the side of the tube.
When the air becomes warm, the liquid rises up the tube. When the air becomes cold, the liquid sinks back down. You read the number at the place where the liquid stops.
A high number means that it is hot, and a low number means that it is cold. People use a thermometer to decide what they should wear.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.3. That is a formula's estimate from sentence length and syllables, and it is not a Lexile or a guided reading level, so check it against your students.
There are five. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 1 ask the reader to work something out from clues. Each has an answer in the key, and the answers are written as a teacher would accept them, not as the only possible wording.
About 1 minute read aloud at 100 words a minute. For a one-minute fluency check, paste it into the fluency timer and use the word count.
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