1st grade nonfiction passage about rice terraces in the Philippines: 89 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Luzon is an island in the Philippines. Mountains rise up on this island. Rice is a food that grows well in wet fields. But a steep hill is hard to farm.
So farmers carved the hills into steps. Each step is a flat field called a terrace. From far away, the hills look like giant green stairs.
Water is let in to fill the fields. The rice plants grow in the water. When the rice is ready, farmers pick it by hand. Then people cook it and eat it.
What is Luzon? in the text
What do farmers carve the hills into? in the text
What grows in the wet fields? in the text
How do the hills look from far away? in the text
Why do farmers make flat steps on the hills? 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.
Luzon is an island in the Philippines. It has mountains. Rice grows well in wet fields. But a steep hill is hard to farm.
So farmers cut the hills into steps. Each step is a flat field. It is called a terrace. From far away, the hills look like green stairs.
Farmers let water into the fields. The rice grows in the water. Farmers pick the rice by hand.
Luzon is an island in the Philippines. Mountains rise up on this island. Rice is a food that grows well in wet fields. But a steep hill is hard to farm.
So farmers carved the hills into steps. Each step is a flat field called a terrace. From far away, the hills look like giant green stairs.
Water is let in to fill the fields. The rice plants grow in the water. When the rice is ready, farmers pick it by hand. Then people cook it and eat it.
Luzon is a large island in the Philippines, and tall mountains rise up across it. Rice is a food that grows best in wet fields, but a steep mountainside is very difficult to farm.
To solve this problem, farmers carved the hills into steps. Each step is a flat field called a terrace, and from far away the hills look like enormous green stairs.
Farmers let water flow into the terraces so the rice plants can grow in it. When the rice is ready, the farmers pick it by hand.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.6. 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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