1st grade nonfiction passage about puddles drying up: 88 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
After the rain, a puddle sits on the ground. It is big and wet. You can splash in it.
Later, the puddle looks smaller. Then it is gone. Where did the water go?
The sun warms the water. The water turns into a gas that we cannot see. The gas goes up into the air. This is called evaporation.
A puddle dries up faster on a sunny day. It dries up slower on a cloudy day. The water did not just disappear. It went up into the air.
What sits on the ground after the rain? in the text
What does the sun do to the water? in the text
What is it called when water goes up into the air? in the text
Does a puddle dry up faster on a sunny day or a cloudy day? in the text
Why does a puddle get smaller as the day goes on? 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.
After rain, a puddle sits on the ground. It is wet. You can splash in it.
Later, the puddle is small. Then it is gone. Where did the water go?
The sun makes the water warm. The water turns into a gas. You cannot see the gas. It goes up into the air. This is evaporation.
A puddle dries fast on a sunny day. It dries slow on a cloudy day. The water did not vanish. It went up into the air.
After the rain, a puddle sits on the ground. It is big and wet. You can splash in it.
Later, the puddle looks smaller. Then it is gone. Where did the water go?
The sun warms the water. The water turns into a gas that we cannot see. The gas goes up into the air. This is called evaporation.
A puddle dries up faster on a sunny day. It dries up slower on a cloudy day. The water did not just disappear. It went up into the air.
After a heavy rain, a large puddle often sits on the ground. It is wide and wet, and you can splash around in it.
Later in the day, the puddle looks smaller. Soon it is gone completely. Where did all of the water go?
The sun warms the water in the puddle. The warm water slowly turns into a gas that we cannot see, and the gas rises into the air. Scientists call this evaporation.
A puddle dries up much faster on a bright, sunny day than on a gray, cloudy day. The water did not simply disappear. It moved up into the air above us.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 88 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.9. 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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