1st grade nonfiction passage about woodpeckers: 88 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Tap, tap, tap! Do you hear that sound in the woods? It may be a woodpecker.
A woodpecker has a strong, sharp beak. It taps on a tree to find bugs that live in the wood. Then it pulls the bugs out with a long, thin tongue.
A woodpecker also drums on trees. The loud drumming tells other woodpeckers, "This is my spot." A woodpecker can make a hole in a tree, too. The hole is a safe home where the bird can rest and raise its babies.
What does a woodpecker use to tap on a tree? in the text
What does a woodpecker look for in the wood? in the text
What does the loud drumming tell other woodpeckers? in the text
What is the hole in the tree used for? in the text
How does a woodpecker get a bug out of a tree? think about it
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.
Tap, tap, tap! Hear that in the woods? It may be a woodpecker.
A woodpecker has a strong beak. It taps on a tree to find bugs in the wood. Then it pulls them out with a long tongue.
A woodpecker also drums on trees. The drumming tells other woodpeckers, "This is my spot." It can make a hole in a tree, too. The hole is a safe home for its babies.
Tap, tap, tap! Do you hear that sound in the woods? It may be a woodpecker.
A woodpecker has a strong, sharp beak. It taps on a tree to find bugs that live in the wood. Then it pulls the bugs out with a long, thin tongue.
A woodpecker also drums on trees. The loud drumming tells other woodpeckers, "This is my spot." A woodpecker can make a hole in a tree, too. The hole is a safe home where the bird can rest and raise its babies.
Tap, tap, tap! Can you hear that sound echoing through the woods? It may be a woodpecker.
A woodpecker has a strong, sharp beak, and it taps on a tree to find the bugs that live inside the wood. Then it pulls the bugs out with a long, thin tongue.
A woodpecker also drums on trees, and the loud drumming tells other woodpeckers, "This is my spot." Sometimes a woodpecker makes a hole in a tree, too. The hole is a safe home where the bird can rest and raise its babies.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 88 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.9. 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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