1st grade nonfiction passage about windshield wipers: 92 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Rain taps on the glass at the front of a car. Drops pile up and blur the road. The driver cannot see well.
So the driver flips a switch. Two wipers start to move. Each wiper is a long arm with a bendy strip of rubber. The arm swings up and then down again. Swish, swish!
The rubber strip sweeps the drops off the glass. The glass is clear again. If the rain falls hard, the driver can make the wipers go faster. If the rain is light, they can go slowly.
Why can the driver not see well in the rain? in the text
What does the driver do to start the wipers? in the text
What is a wiper made of? in the text
What sound do the wipers make? in the text
When might a driver want the wipers to go faster? 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.
Rain taps on the car glass. Drops blur the road. The driver cannot see.
The driver flips a switch. The wipers move. A wiper is a long arm with a strip of rubber. The arm swings up and down. Swish, swish!
The rubber wipes the drops off the glass. Now the driver can see. In hard rain, the wipers go fast. In light rain, they go slow.
Rain taps on the glass at the front of a car. Drops pile up and blur the road. The driver cannot see well.
So the driver flips a switch. Two wipers start to move. Each wiper is a long arm with a bendy strip of rubber. The arm swings up and then down again. Swish, swish!
The rubber strip sweeps the drops off the glass. The glass is clear again. If the rain falls hard, the driver can make the wipers go faster. If the rain is light, they can go slowly.
Rain taps against the large piece of glass at the front of a car. The drops gather and blur the road, so the driver cannot see very well.
To fix this, the driver flips a switch, and two wipers begin to move. Each wiper is a long metal arm with a bendy strip of rubber along its edge. The arm swings up across the glass and then back down again, going swish, swish.
The rubber strip sweeps the drops off the glass, and the road becomes clear once more. When the rain falls hard, the driver can make the wipers move faster. When the rain is light, the wipers can move slowly.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 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 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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