1st grade nonfiction passage about potatoes: 87 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at a potato plant. You can see green leaves and stems. But the best part is hiding from you. The potatoes grow under the ground!
A farmer plants a small piece of potato in the soil. A new plant grows up from it. Under the soil, new potatoes grow on the plant's roots.
When the leaves turn yellow, the farmer digs in the dirt. Out come the potatoes, a whole pile of them. We can bake them, mash them, or cut them up and fry them.
Where do potatoes grow? in the text
What does a farmer plant to grow new potatoes? in the text
What color are the leaves when the potatoes are ready? in the text
How can we cook potatoes? in the text
Why does the farmer dig in the dirt? 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 a potato plant. You see green leaves. But the potatoes are hiding. They grow under the ground!
A farmer plants a small piece of potato. A new plant grows up. Under the soil, new potatoes grow on the roots.
The leaves turn yellow. The farmer digs. Out come the potatoes. We can bake them or mash them.
Look at a potato plant. You can see green leaves and stems. But the best part is hiding from you. The potatoes grow under the ground!
A farmer plants a small piece of potato in the soil. A new plant grows up from it. Under the soil, new potatoes grow on the plant's roots.
When the leaves turn yellow, the farmer digs in the dirt. Out come the potatoes, a whole pile of them. We can bake them, mash them, or cut them up and fry them.
Take a look at a potato plant. Above the ground, you can see green leaves and stems. However, the best part of the plant is hidden from view, because the potatoes grow under the ground!
A farmer plants a small piece of a potato in the soil, and a new plant grows up from it. Beneath the soil, new potatoes begin to grow on the plant's roots.
When the leaves turn yellow, the farmer digs in the dirt, and out come the potatoes. People can bake them, mash them, or cut them into pieces and fry them.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 87 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.0. 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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