1st grade nonfiction passage about how a cable car travels uphill: 92 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Some mountains are too steep for a bus or a train. So people ride in a cable car.
A cable car is a small cabin with windows. It hangs from a strong metal rope. The rope is called a cable. It goes from the bottom of the mountain to the top.
At the top is a big motor. The motor turns a huge wheel. The wheel pulls the cable. The cable pulls the cabin up the mountain.
The riders look out the windows. They see tiny trees and little houses far below.
What is a cable car? in the text
What is the cable made of? in the text
What is at the top of the mountain? in the text
What do riders see out of the windows? in the text
Why do people use a cable car on a very steep mountain? 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.
Some mountains are too steep for a bus or a train. So people ride in a cable car.
A cable car is a small cabin with windows. It hangs from a strong metal rope. The rope is a cable. It goes from the bottom of the mountain to the top.
At the top is a motor. The motor turns a big wheel. The wheel pulls the cable. The cable pulls the cabin up.
Riders look out. They see tiny trees and little houses far below.
Some mountains are too steep for a bus or a train. So people ride in a cable car.
A cable car is a small cabin with windows. It hangs from a strong metal rope. The rope is called a cable. It goes from the bottom of the mountain to the top.
At the top is a big motor. The motor turns a huge wheel. The wheel pulls the cable. The cable pulls the cabin up the mountain.
The riders look out the windows. They see tiny trees and little houses far below.
Certain mountains are far too steep for a bus or a train to climb, so people travel up them in a cable car instead.
A cable car is a small cabin with large windows. It hangs from a thick, strong rope made of metal, which is called a cable. The cable stretches all the way from the bottom of the mountain to the very top.
Inside a station at the top, a powerful motor turns a huge wheel. The wheel pulls the cable along, and the cable pulls the cabin steadily up the mountainside.
As they rise, the riders gaze out of the windows and see tiny trees and little houses spread out far below.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.1. 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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