1st grade nonfiction passage about how a salad spinner works: 96 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Wet lettuce is hard to eat in a salad. The water makes the dressing slide right off. We need a way to dry the leaves.
A salad spinner can help. It is a bowl with a basket inside. The basket has many small holes. You put the wet leaves in the basket and close the lid.
Then you pull a cord or turn a handle. The basket spins fast. The water flies off the leaves and goes through the holes. It stays in the bowl. Now the leaves are dry. The dressing can stick to them.
Why do we need to dry lettuce? in the text
What is inside the bowl? in the text
What do you do to make the basket spin? in the text
Where does the water go? in the text
What would happen if the basket had no holes? 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.
Wet lettuce is not good in a salad. The dressing slides off. We must dry the leaves.
A salad spinner can do it. It is a bowl with a basket inside. The basket has small holes. Put wet leaves in the basket. Close the lid.
Turn the handle. The basket spins fast. The water flies off the leaves. It goes through the holes. It stays in the bowl. The leaves are dry now.
Wet lettuce is hard to eat in a salad. The water makes the dressing slide right off. We need a way to dry the leaves.
A salad spinner can help. It is a bowl with a basket inside. The basket has many small holes. You put the wet leaves in the basket and close the lid.
Then you pull a cord or turn a handle. The basket spins fast. The water flies off the leaves and goes through the holes. It stays in the bowl. Now the leaves are dry. The dressing can stick to them.
Wet lettuce is hard to enjoy in a salad, because the water makes the dressing slide right off the leaves. We need some way to dry them quickly after we wash them.
A salad spinner is made for this job. It is a large bowl with a basket sitting inside it, and the basket has many small holes in its sides. You put the wet leaves into the basket and then close the lid.
Next, you pull a cord or turn a handle, and the basket spins very fast. The water flies off the leaves and passes through the holes, and it collects in the bowl underneath. Now the leaves are dry, and the dressing can stick to them properly.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 96 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.2. 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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