1st grade nonfiction passage about street lamps before electric lights: 92 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Long ago, the street lamps did not click on by themselves. A man called a lamplighter did the job.
At dusk, he walked down the street with a long pole. The pole had a small flame on the end. He lifted it to each lamp. Poof! The lamp glowed. Then he walked on to the next one.
In the morning, he came back. He put out each lamp. The streets were safer at night with his lamps. Then people learned to use electric lights. Now the lights turn on without a lamplighter.
What was the man who lit the lamps called? in the text
What did he carry on his walk? in the text
When did he light the lamps? in the text
What did he do in the morning? in the text
Why do we not need lamplighters now? 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 street lamp did not turn on by itself. A lamplighter did the job.
At dusk, he walked down the street. He had a long pole. The pole had a small flame on the end. He lifted it to each lamp. Poof! The lamp glowed.
In the morning, he put out each lamp. Now we have electric lights. They turn on by themselves.
Long ago, the street lamps did not click on by themselves. A man called a lamplighter did the job.
At dusk, he walked down the street with a long pole. The pole had a small flame on the end. He lifted it to each lamp. Poof! The lamp glowed. Then he walked on to the next one.
In the morning, he came back. He put out each lamp. The streets were safer at night with his lamps. Then people learned to use electric lights. Now the lights turn on without a lamplighter.
Long ago, the lamps along the street did not switch on by themselves. A man known as a lamplighter had to do the job.
As the sun went down each evening, he walked along the street carrying a long pole with a small flame at the tip. He lifted the flame up to every lamp, and one by one the lamps began to glow. Then he hurried on to the next one.
When morning came, he returned and put out each lamp. With his lamps, the streets were safer at night. After people learned to use electric lights, the lamps could turn on without a lamplighter.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.9. 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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