1st grade nonfiction passage about the city of Venice: 100 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Venice is a city in Italy. It has no big roads for cars. Here, a canal is a path made of water. Canals run between the old buildings.
A water bus takes people to work. A boat can be a taxi too. Boats bring food to the shops. A gondola is a long boat with a pointy front.
Small bridges cross the canals. People walk over them to get to the other side. It is a fun place to see. A trip there is like a trip on a big, wet map. You can see it all from a boat.
In what country is Venice? in the text
What is a canal? in the text
What carries food to the shops? in the text
What do people walk over to cross a canal? in the text
Why do people in Venice use boats so much? 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.
Venice is a city. It is in Italy. It has no roads for cars. It has canals. A canal is a path of water.
People ride in boats. A boat can be a bus. A boat can be a taxi. Boats bring food to shops.
There are small bridges. People walk on a bridge to cross a canal.
Venice is a city in Italy. It has no big roads for cars. Here, a canal is a path made of water. Canals run between the old buildings.
A water bus takes people to work. A boat can be a taxi too. Boats bring food to the shops. A gondola is a long boat with a pointy front.
Small bridges cross the canals. People walk over them to get to the other side. It is a fun place to see. A trip there is like a trip on a big, wet map. You can see it all from a boat.
Venice is a city in the country of Italy, and it has no wide roads for cars. Instead, the city is crisscrossed by canals, which are paths made of water.
Because of the canals, people in Venice travel by boat. A water bus carries people to their jobs, and a taxi can even be a boat. Other boats deliver food to the shops. A gondola is a long boat with a pointy front.
The city also has many small bridges, and people walk over them to get from one side of a canal to the other.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 100 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.8. 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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