1st grade nonfiction passage about feeling your pulse: 83 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
You can feel your heart at work. Here is how. Hold out one hand with the palm up. Rest two fingers of your other hand on your wrist, just below the thumb.
Press softly and wait. Do you feel a tiny tap, tap, tap? That is your pulse. Each tap is a push of blood from your heart.
Now jump up and down ten times. Check your wrist again. The taps are faster now. Your heart works harder when you run and play.
Where do you rest two fingers to feel your pulse? in the text
What does each tap come from? in the text
What do you do to make the taps faster? in the text
How should you press on your wrist? in the text
Why does your heart work harder when you run? 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.
You can feel your heart work. Hold out a hand with the palm up. Put two fingers of the other hand on your wrist, below the thumb.
Press softly. Wait. Do you feel a tap, tap, tap? That is your pulse. Each tap is a push of blood from your heart.
Now jump ten times. Check your wrist. The taps are faster. Your heart works hard when you play.
You can feel your heart at work. Here is how. Hold out one hand with the palm up. Rest two fingers of your other hand on your wrist, just below the thumb.
Press softly and wait. Do you feel a tiny tap, tap, tap? That is your pulse. Each tap is a push of blood from your heart.
Now jump up and down ten times. Check your wrist again. The taps are faster now. Your heart works harder when you run and play.
You are able to feel your own heart at work, and it is easy to try. Hold out one hand with the palm facing up. Then rest two fingers of your other hand on your wrist, just below the base of your thumb.
Press gently and wait a moment. Can you feel a tiny tap, tap, tap? That is your pulse. Every tap comes from a push of blood as it leaves your heart.
Next, jump up and down ten times and check your wrist again. The taps are much faster now, because your heart works harder when you run and play.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 83 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.0. 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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