1st grade nonfiction passage about the triangle instrument: 81 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A triangle is a music tool made of one thin metal bar. The bar is bent into the shape of a triangle. It has three sides.
A player holds the triangle by a small string. Then she taps it with a metal stick. Ting! The sound rings out clear and bright.
Do not hold the metal itself. If you squeeze it, the ring stops. The metal needs room to shake. When it hangs free, the sound can last a long time.
What is a triangle made of? in the text
How many sides does it have? in the text
How does a player hold it? in the text
What does the player use to tap it? in the text
Why does the ring stop if you squeeze the metal? think about it
Why does the triangle hang from a string? 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 triangle is a music tool. It is one thin metal bar. The bar is bent. It has three sides.
A player holds it by a string. She taps it with a metal stick. Ting! The sound is clear.
Do not squeeze the metal. The ring will stop. The metal must shake. If it hangs free, the sound lasts.
A triangle is a music tool made of one thin metal bar. The bar is bent into the shape of a triangle. It has three sides.
A player holds the triangle by a small string. Then she taps it with a metal stick. Ting! The sound rings out clear and bright.
Do not hold the metal itself. If you squeeze it, the ring stops. The metal needs room to shake. When it hangs free, the sound can last a long time.
A triangle is a musical instrument made from a single thin bar of metal. The bar is bent into the shape of a triangle, so it has three sides.
A player holds the triangle by a small loop of string and taps it with a metal stick. Ting! The sound rings out, clear and bright.
The player never grips the metal itself. If she squeezed it tightly, the ringing would stop right away, because the metal needs room to shake. When the triangle hangs freely, the sound can last for a long while.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 81 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.0. 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 six. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 2 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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