1st grade nonfiction passage about recycling broken crayons: 83 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Do you have broken crayons? Do not toss them out. You can make a new crayon with them.
First, peel off the paper. Next, sort the bits by color. Put the bits into a small mold. A grown-up bakes the mold in a warm oven. The wax gets soft and runny.
Then the mold sits and cools. The wax gets hard again. Pop out the new crayon! It has stripes of red, blue and green. Many small bits made one big crayon.
What can you do with broken crayons? in the text
What do you peel off first? in the text
Who bakes the mold? in the text
What happens to the wax in the oven? in the text
Why does the new crayon have stripes? think about it
Why does a grown-up do the baking? 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.
Do you have broken crayons? Do not toss them. You can make a new one.
Peel off the paper. Put the bits in a mold. A grown-up bakes the mold. The wax gets soft.
Let it cool. The wax gets hard. Pop it out! The new crayon has stripes. Small bits made one big crayon.
Do you have broken crayons? Do not toss them out. You can make a new crayon with them.
First, peel off the paper. Next, sort the bits by color. Put the bits into a small mold. A grown-up bakes the mold in a warm oven. The wax gets soft and runny.
Then the mold sits and cools. The wax gets hard again. Pop out the new crayon! It has stripes of red, blue and green. Many small bits made one big crayon.
Do you have a pile of broken crayons? Instead of throwing them away, you can turn them into a brand new crayon.
First, peel the paper off each broken piece. Next, sort the bits by color and press them into a small mold. A grown-up then bakes the mold in a warm oven, where the wax becomes soft and runny.
After that, the mold sits until it cools, and the wax turns hard again. When you pop out the new crayon, it has pretty stripes of red, blue and green. Many small bits have become one big crayon.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 83 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about below 1. 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. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 2 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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