1st grade nonfiction passage about shapes in math: 79 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look around you. You can find shapes everywhere.
A circle is round. It has no corners. A wheel is a circle. So is a plate.
A square has four sides that are the same. A window can be a square. A triangle has three sides. A slice of pizza is a triangle.
A rectangle has four sides, too. Two sides are long and two are short. A door is a rectangle. Which shapes can you find in your room?
How many corners does a circle have? in the text
Can you name something that is a circle? in the text
How many sides does a triangle have? in the text
What is the same about the four sides of a square? in the text
How is a rectangle different from a square? think about it
What shape is a door? in the text
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. Shapes are all around us.
A circle is round. It has no corners. A wheel is a circle. A plate is a circle.
A square has four sides. They are the same. A window can be a square. A triangle has three sides. A pizza is a triangle.
A rectangle has four sides. Two are long. Two are short. A door is a rectangle.
Look around you. You can find shapes everywhere.
A circle is round. It has no corners. A wheel is a circle. So is a plate.
A square has four sides that are the same. A window can be a square. A triangle has three sides. A slice of pizza is a triangle.
A rectangle has four sides, too. Two sides are long and two are short. A door is a rectangle. Which shapes can you find in your room?
Look carefully at the world around you, because shapes are hiding everywhere.
A circle is perfectly round, and it has no corners at all. A wheel is a circle, and so is a dinner plate.
A square has four sides that are all the same length, and a window can be a square. A triangle has only three sides, and a slice of pizza is a triangle.
A rectangle also has four sides, but two of them are long and two of them are short. A door is a rectangle. Which shapes can you find in your own room?
It was written for 1st grade. It has 79 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.3. 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. 5 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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