1st grade nonfiction passage about reading an o'clock time: 80 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A clock has two hands. One hand is short. The other hand is long. They do different jobs.
The short hand tells the hour. The long hand tells how many minutes. When the long hand points straight up at the 12, it is an o'clock time.
Now look at the short hand. If it points to the 3, the clock says three o'clock. If it points to the 8, the clock says eight o'clock. At eight o'clock, we might eat a big breakfast.
How many hands does the clock have? in the text
What does the short hand tell us? in the text
Where does the long hand point at an o'clock time? in the text
What time is it if the short hand points to the 3? in the text
How can you tell the two hands apart? 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 clock has two hands. One is short. One is long. They do different jobs.
The short hand tells the hour. The long hand tells the minutes. When the long hand points up at the 12, it is an o'clock time.
Now look at the short hand. If it points to the 3, it is three o'clock. If it points to the 8, it is eight o'clock.
A clock has two hands. One hand is short. The other hand is long. They do different jobs.
The short hand tells the hour. The long hand tells how many minutes. When the long hand points straight up at the 12, it is an o'clock time.
Now look at the short hand. If it points to the 3, the clock says three o'clock. If it points to the 8, the clock says eight o'clock. At eight o'clock, we might eat a big breakfast.
A clock has two hands, and the hands are not the same size. One hand is short and the other hand is long, and each of them does a different job.
The short hand tells us the hour, while the long hand tells us the minutes. Whenever the long hand points straight up at the 12, we know that it is an o'clock time.
Then we look at the short hand. If it points to the 3, the clock says three o'clock. If it points to the 8, the clock says eight o'clock, and that might be a good time for a big breakfast.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 80 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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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