1st grade nonfiction passage about piano tuners: 80 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A piano has strings inside. When you press a key, a small hammer hits a string. The string shakes and makes a sound.
After a long time, the strings can slip out of tune. The notes sound sour. Then a piano tuner comes to help.
The tuner listens very close. She turns a little tool to make a string tighter or looser. When the note sounds right, she moves on to the next one. Her ears are her best tool.
What hits a string when you press a key? in the text
What do the notes sound like when a piano is out of tune? in the text
What does the tuner turn to change a string? in the text
What does the tuner do to a string to fix a note? in the text
Why does the tuner listen so close? think about it
Why does the passage say her ears are her best tool? 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 piano has strings inside. You press a key. A small hammer hits a string. The string shakes and makes a sound.
Strings can slip out of tune. Then the notes sound sour. A piano tuner comes to help.
The tuner listens close. She turns a little tool. A string gets tighter or looser. When the note sounds right, she goes to the next one.
A piano has strings inside. When you press a key, a small hammer hits a string. The string shakes and makes a sound.
After a long time, the strings can slip out of tune. The notes sound sour. Then a piano tuner comes to help.
The tuner listens very close. She turns a little tool to make a string tighter or looser. When the note sounds right, she moves on to the next one. Her ears are her best tool.
Inside every piano there are many strings. When you press a key, a small hammer strikes a string, and the string shakes and makes a sound.
After a long time, the strings can slip out of tune, and then the notes start to sound sour. That is when a piano tuner comes to help.
The tuner listens very closely to each note. She turns a small tool to make a string a little tighter or a little looser. When the note finally sounds right, she moves on to the next one. Her ears are her most important tool.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 80 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 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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