1st grade nonfiction passage about how raisins are made: 89 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A raisin is a grape that has dried out. It is small, dark and wrinkly. It is chewy and very sweet.
Here is how a raisin is made. Farmers pick ripe grapes from the vine. They lay the grapes out in the sun on trays or paper.
The sun is hot. Day after day, the water in each grape goes up into the air. The grapes shrink. Their skins get wrinkly.
After many days, they are raisins! Some go into boxes for lunch. Some go into oatmeal or cookies.
What is a raisin? in the text
What do raisins feel like to eat? in the text
Where do farmers lay the grapes? in the text
What foods can have raisins in them? in the text
Why do the grapes shrink and get wrinkly? 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.
A raisin is a grape that has dried out. It is small and dark. It is chewy and sweet.
Farmers pick ripe grapes. They lay the grapes in the sun.
The sun is hot. Day after day, the water in each grape goes up into the air. The grapes shrink. Their skins get wrinkly.
Then they are raisins! Some go in oatmeal or cookies.
A raisin is a grape that has dried out. It is small, dark and wrinkly. It is chewy and very sweet.
Here is how a raisin is made. Farmers pick ripe grapes from the vine. They lay the grapes out in the sun on trays or paper.
The sun is hot. Day after day, the water in each grape goes up into the air. The grapes shrink. Their skins get wrinkly.
After many days, they are raisins! Some go into boxes for lunch. Some go into oatmeal or cookies.
A raisin is simply a grape that has dried out. It is small, dark and wrinkly, and it tastes very sweet and chewy.
This is how raisins are made. Farmers pick ripe grapes from the vines and spread them out in the bright sun on trays or sheets of paper.
Because the sun is so hot, the water inside each grape slowly rises into the air, day after day. The grapes shrink, and their skins become wrinkly.
After many days, the grapes have turned into raisins. Some are packed into little boxes for lunch, and others are baked into oatmeal or cookies.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.4. 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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