1st grade nonfiction passage about days of the week on a calendar: 89 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at a calendar. Across the top are the names of the days. There are seven. Sunday comes first and Saturday comes last.
Each box on the calendar is one day. Seven boxes in a row make one week. A month has a few weeks, so it has a few rows.
When you finish one week, you start the next one. The days go in the same order again. Mark a day you like with a star. Then you can count how many days are left until it comes.
How many days are in one week? in the text
Which day comes first on this calendar? in the text
What does each box on the calendar show? in the text
What do you put on a day you like? in the text
How does a calendar help you wait for a special day? 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 calendar. At the top are the names of the days. There are seven. Sunday is first. Saturday is last.
Each box is one day. Seven boxes in a row make a week. A month has a few weeks, so it has a few rows.
When one week is done, the next week starts. The days go in the same order. Put a star on a day you like. Then count the days left until it comes.
Look at a calendar. Across the top are the names of the days. There are seven. Sunday comes first and Saturday comes last.
Each box on the calendar is one day. Seven boxes in a row make one week. A month has a few weeks, so it has a few rows.
When you finish one week, you start the next one. The days go in the same order again. Mark a day you like with a star. Then you can count how many days are left until it comes.
If you look closely at a calendar, you will see the names of the days written across the top. There are seven of them, with Sunday first and Saturday last.
Each box on the calendar stands for one day. Seven boxes in a row make up one week, and since a month contains a few weeks, it has a few rows.
Once you finish one week, the next week begins, and the days follow the same order again. You can mark a day you love with a star. Then you can count how many days are left until that special day arrives.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 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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