1st grade nonfiction passage about a dozen eggs: 91 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Open an egg carton at the store. You will see two rows. Each row has six little cups. One egg sits in each cup.
Count the cups. Six and six make twelve. A group of twelve has a special name. It is called a dozen.
Some cartons are smaller. A half dozen carton holds six eggs. That is just one row. Look for the carton that fits your family. A big family may need a dozen. One or two people may need only six. Pick the one you will use up.
How many rows does a full egg carton have? in the text
How many cups are in each row? in the text
What is a group of twelve called? in the text
How many eggs are in a half dozen carton? in the text
Why is a half dozen only one row? 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.
Open an egg carton. You see two rows. Each row has six cups. One egg sits in each cup.
Count the cups. Six and six make twelve. Twelve is called a dozen.
Some cartons are small. A half dozen carton has six eggs. That is one row.
Open an egg carton at the store. You will see two rows. Each row has six little cups. One egg sits in each cup.
Count the cups. Six and six make twelve. A group of twelve has a special name. It is called a dozen.
Some cartons are smaller. A half dozen carton holds six eggs. That is just one row. Look for the carton that fits your family. A big family may need a dozen. One or two people may need only six. Pick the one you will use up.
When you open an egg carton at the grocery store, you will notice two rows. Each row has six little cups, and one egg rests in each cup.
If you count all of the cups, six and six make twelve. A group of twelve has a special name, and that name is a dozen.
Some cartons are smaller than others. A half dozen carton holds only six eggs, which is exactly one row. You can look for the carton that fits your family best.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 91 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 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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