1st grade nonfiction passage about insects: 89 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Ants are small, but they are strong. Ants live in big groups called colonies. A colony can have thousands of ants.
Each ant in the colony has its own work. Some ants look for food. Some take care of the eggs. Some dig tunnels under the ground.
When an ant finds food, it goes back to the nest. Other ants follow it to the food. Together, they carry it home.
An ant can carry something much bigger than itself. Ants get a lot done by working as a team.
What is a group of ants called? in the text
What are three jobs ants do? in the text
Where do ants dig tunnels? in the text
What do other ants do when one ant finds food? in the text
Why do ants get a lot done? think about it
Can an ant carry something bigger than itself? 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.
Ants are small, but they are strong. Ants live in big groups. A group is a colony. A colony can have thousands of ants.
Each ant has a job. Some ants find food. Some ants care for the eggs. Some ants dig tunnels under the ground.
An ant finds food. It goes back to the nest. Other ants follow. They carry the food home.
An ant can carry a thing bigger than itself. Ants work as a team.
Ants are small, but they are strong. Ants live in big groups called colonies. A colony can have thousands of ants.
Each ant in the colony has its own work. Some ants look for food. Some take care of the eggs. Some dig tunnels under the ground.
When an ant finds food, it goes back to the nest. Other ants follow it to the food. Together, they carry it home.
An ant can carry something much bigger than itself. Ants get a lot done by working as a team.
Ants may be tiny, but they are surprisingly strong. They live together in enormous groups called colonies, and a single colony can hold thousands of ants.
Inside a colony, every ant has its own job. Some ants search for food, some ants take care of the eggs, and some ants dig tunnels deep under the ground.
When one ant discovers food, it hurries back to the nest. The other ants follow it to the food, and together they carry it home.
An ant can carry something much bigger than itself, and ants accomplish a great deal by working as a team.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.8. 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 six. 5 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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