1st grade nonfiction passage about weather and water: 78 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Snow starts high up in the clouds. Clouds are made of tiny drops of water. When the air is very cold, the drops freeze. They turn into tiny bits of ice.
The bits of ice stick together. They make snowflakes. Each snowflake has six sides.
When the snowflakes get heavy, they fall to the ground. Snow can cover grass, roofs, and roads.
When the sun comes out, the snow gets warm. It melts and turns back into water.
Where does snow start? in the text
What are clouds made of? in the text
What happens to the drops when the air is very cold? in the text
How many sides does a snowflake have? in the text
What happens to snow when the sun makes it warm? in the text
Why do you think snow does not fall in the summer? 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.
Snow starts high in the clouds. Clouds are made of tiny drops of water. When the air is very cold, the drops freeze. They turn into bits of ice.
The bits of ice stick together. They make snowflakes. A snowflake has six sides.
Snowflakes get heavy. They fall down. Snow can cover grass, roofs, and roads.
The sun comes out. The snow gets warm. It melts. It turns back into water.
Snow starts high up in the clouds. Clouds are made of tiny drops of water. When the air is very cold, the drops freeze. They turn into tiny bits of ice.
The bits of ice stick together. They make snowflakes. Each snowflake has six sides.
When the snowflakes get heavy, they fall to the ground. Snow can cover grass, roofs, and roads.
When the sun comes out, the snow gets warm. It melts and turns back into water.
Snow begins high up in the clouds, and clouds are made of tiny drops of water. When the air becomes very cold, the drops freeze and turn into tiny bits of ice.
The bits of ice stick together and form snowflakes. Every snowflake has six sides.
When the snowflakes grow heavy, they drift down to the ground. Snow can blanket the grass, the roofs, and the roads.
When the sun comes out, the snow becomes warm. It melts and turns back into water.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 78 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.1. 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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