1st grade nonfiction passage about growing an herb in a pot: 90 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
You can grow basil in a pot. Basil is an herb. Its leaves smell good, and cooks use them to add taste to food.
Here is how to do it. First, fill a pot with soil. Next, press a few basil seeds into the top. Then add a little water. Last, put the pot by a sunny window.
Check the soil each day. If it feels dry, add a little water. Do not add too much. In a few weeks, you will have green leaves to smell and to eat.
What do you fill the pot with first? in the text
Where do you put the pot? in the text
What do cooks use basil leaves for? in the text
When should you add water? in the text
Why does the pot need to be in a sunny place? 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 grow basil in a pot. Basil is an herb. Its leaves smell good. Cooks use them in food.
Here is how. First, fill a pot with soil. Next, press seeds into the top. Then add a little water. Last, put the pot by a sunny window.
Check the soil each day. If it is dry, add water. Soon you will have green leaves.
You can grow basil in a pot. Basil is an herb. Its leaves smell good, and cooks use them to add taste to food.
Here is how to do it. First, fill a pot with soil. Next, press a few basil seeds into the top. Then add a little water. Last, put the pot by a sunny window.
Check the soil each day. If it feels dry, add a little water. Do not add too much. In a few weeks, you will have green leaves to smell and to eat.
You can grow your own basil in a pot. Basil is an herb with leaves that smell wonderful, and cooks like to use them to add taste to their food.
Here are the steps to follow. First, fill a pot with soil. Next, press a few basil seeds into the top of the soil. Then pour on a little water. Finally, set the pot beside a sunny window.
Be sure to check the soil every day. If it feels dry, add a little more water. After a few weeks, you will have fresh green leaves to smell and to eat.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 90 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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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