1st grade nonfiction passage about prices at a yard sale: 90 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A yard sale is a sale in a yard. People put out things they do not need. Other people come to buy them.
Every item gets a price tag. A small tag might say 10 cents. A big tag might say 5 dollars. The price tells you how much money to pay.
Say you want a toy truck that costs 2 dollars. You hand over 2 dollars. Now the truck is yours. You have less money, but you have a new toy. The seller has some money, and a bit more room at home.
What do people put out at a yard sale? in the text
What does a price tag tell you? in the text
How much does the toy truck cost? in the text
What do you get when you pay for the truck? in the text
Why do you have less money after you buy the truck? 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 yard sale is a sale in a yard. People put out things they do not need. Others come to buy them.
Each thing gets a price tag. A small tag might say 10 cents. A big tag might say 5 dollars. The price tells how much money to pay.
You want a toy truck that costs 2 dollars. You hand over 2 dollars. Now the truck is yours. You have less money, but you have a new toy.
A yard sale is a sale in a yard. People put out things they do not need. Other people come to buy them.
Every item gets a price tag. A small tag might say 10 cents. A big tag might say 5 dollars. The price tells you how much money to pay.
Say you want a toy truck that costs 2 dollars. You hand over 2 dollars. Now the truck is yours. You have less money, but you have a new toy. The seller has some money, and a bit more room at home.
A yard sale is a sale that happens in somebody's yard. Families put out things that they no longer need, and other people come by to buy them.
Every item gets a price tag. A small tag might say 10 cents, while a bigger tag might say 5 dollars. The price tells you exactly how much money you must pay.
Suppose you want a toy truck that costs 2 dollars. You hand over 2 dollars, and the truck becomes yours. You have less money than before, but you have a new toy. The seller has some money, and a little more room at home.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 90 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.5. 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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