1st grade nonfiction passage about body percussion: 80 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
You do not need a drum to make a beat. You have one with you right now. Your body can make music!
You can clap your hands. You can pat your knees. You can snap your fingers. You can stomp your feet. Each one makes a different sound.
Try a pattern. Stomp, stomp, clap. Stomp, stomp, clap. Say it with a friend and keep the same speed. A pattern that repeats is a beat. You can dance to it, too.
What do you need to make a beat? in the text
What are four ways to make sounds with your body? in the text
What is the pattern in the story? in the text
Who can you make the pattern with? in the text
What is a beat? think about it
Why must you keep the same speed with a friend? 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.
You do not need a drum to make a beat. Your body can make music!
You can clap. You can pat your knees. You can snap. You can stomp. Each one has its own sound.
Try this. Stomp, stomp, clap. Say it with a friend. Keep the same speed. The pattern repeats. That is a beat.
You do not need a drum to make a beat. You have one with you right now. Your body can make music!
You can clap your hands. You can pat your knees. You can snap your fingers. You can stomp your feet. Each one makes a different sound.
Try a pattern. Stomp, stomp, clap. Stomp, stomp, clap. Say it with a friend and keep the same speed. A pattern that repeats is a beat. You can dance to it, too.
You do not need a drum to make a beat, because you carry a whole drum set around with you. Your own body can make music!
You can clap your hands, pat your knees, snap your fingers or stomp your feet. Every one of those actions makes a different sound.
Now try making a pattern. Stomp, stomp, clap. Stomp, stomp, clap. If you do it with a friend, you must keep the same speed so that your sounds fit together. A pattern of sounds that keeps repeating is called a beat, and you can even dance along to it.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 80 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about below 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. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 2 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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