1st grade nonfiction passage about the first bicycles: 86 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A long time ago, a bike had no pedals. It was made of wood. It had two wheels and a seat.
How did the rider go? He sat on the seat. He pushed his feet on the ground. Push, push, glide! The bike rolled on.
It was a fun way to go. But it was not easy to go up a hill. Later, people added pedals to bikes. Now we can pedal fast and go far. Some bikes for little kids start with no pedals too!
What was the first kind of bike made of? in the text
How did the rider make the bike go? in the text
What did people add to bikes later? in the text
What was hard to do on the old bike? in the text
Why do pedals make a bike better? 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.
Long ago, a bike had no pedals. It was made of wood. It had two wheels and a seat.
How did the rider go? He sat on the seat. He pushed his feet on the ground. Push, push, glide! The bike rolled.
A hill was hard. Later, people put pedals on bikes. Now we can go fast and far.
A long time ago, a bike had no pedals. It was made of wood. It had two wheels and a seat.
How did the rider go? He sat on the seat. He pushed his feet on the ground. Push, push, glide! The bike rolled on.
It was a fun way to go. But it was not easy to go up a hill. Later, people added pedals to bikes. Now we can pedal fast and go far. Some bikes for little kids start with no pedals too!
Many years ago, the first bicycles did not have any pedals at all. They were built out of wood, and they had two wheels and a seat.
So how did the rider make the bicycle move? He sat down on the seat and pushed his feet against the ground. Push, push, glide! The bicycle rolled along the road.
It was an exciting way to travel, but climbing a hill was not easy. Later on, inventors added pedals to bicycles. Today we can pedal quickly and travel far, and some bicycles made for little children begin with no pedals as well.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 86 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.3. 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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