1st grade nonfiction passage about reading a map key: 90 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A map shows land as if you were a bird up high. It uses small drawings called symbols. A tiny tree might mean a park. A blue line might mean a river.
How can you tell what each symbol means? Look for the map key. The key is a little box on the map. It lists each symbol and tells you its meaning.
Say you want to find a school. Look in the key for the school symbol. Then look on the map for the same symbol. You found it!
What is a map? in the text
What might a blue line mean? in the text
Where do you look to learn what a symbol means? in the text
What does the map key show? in the text
Why is a map key helpful? 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.
A map is a picture of a place. It shows the place from high above. It has small pictures called symbols. A tree can mean a park. A blue line can mean a river.
How do you know what a symbol means? Look at the map key. The key is a box on the map. It shows each symbol. It tells you what it means.
Find the school symbol in the key. Then look for that symbol on the map. There it is!
A map shows land as if you were a bird up high. It uses small drawings called symbols. A tiny tree might mean a park. A blue line might mean a river.
How can you tell what each symbol means? Look for the map key. The key is a little box on the map. It lists each symbol and tells you its meaning.
Say you want to find a school. Look in the key for the school symbol. Then look on the map for the same symbol. You found it!
A map is a drawing of a place as it would look from far above. Instead of showing every detail, a map uses small pictures called symbols. A tiny tree might stand for a park, and a blue line might stand for a river.
How can you tell what each symbol means? You can study the map key, which is a small box somewhere on the map. The key shows every symbol and explains what each one means.
Suppose you are trying to find a school. First, look in the key for the school symbol. Then search the map for the matching symbol. Now you know exactly where the school is!
It was written for 1st grade. It has 90 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.6. 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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