1st grade nonfiction passage about fingernails: 91 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at your fingers. At the tip of each one is a hard, smooth nail. Your nails are tough. They guard the soft skin under them. They also help you pick up small things, like a coin or a button.
Nails grow all the time. You cannot feel it, but they get a little longer each week. That is why we trim them.
A nail has no feeling, so a trim does not hurt. Ask a grown-up to help you. Short, clean nails are easy to keep neat and tidy.
Where is a nail on your body? in the text
What do nails guard? in the text
How often do nails grow? in the text
Why does a trim not hurt? in the text
Why do we need to trim our nails? 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.
Look at your fingers. Each one has a nail at the tip. A nail is hard and smooth. It keeps the soft skin under it safe.
Nails grow and grow. You cannot feel it. But they get a bit longer each week. So we trim them.
A nail has no feeling. A trim does not hurt. Ask a grown-up to help.
Look at your fingers. At the tip of each one is a hard, smooth nail. Your nails are tough. They guard the soft skin under them. They also help you pick up small things, like a coin or a button.
Nails grow all the time. You cannot feel it, but they get a little longer each week. That is why we trim them.
A nail has no feeling, so a trim does not hurt. Ask a grown-up to help you. Short, clean nails are easy to keep neat and tidy.
Take a close look at your fingers. At the very tip of each one is a hard, smooth nail. Your nails are surprisingly tough, and they protect the soft skin that lies beneath them.
Nails never stop growing. You cannot feel it happening, but they become a little longer every week. That is the reason people trim them from time to time.
A nail has no feeling inside it, so trimming does not hurt. Ask a grown-up to help you, because short, clean nails are much easier to keep neat.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 91 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.9. 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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