1st grade nonfiction passage about farm animals and food: 89 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A cow eats grass and drinks water all day. Her body turns the grass into milk. A cow can give many cups of milk each day.
A farmer takes care of the cows. The farmer gets the milk from the cow. A big truck takes the milk to a factory. There, the milk is made safe to drink.
Then the milk goes to a store in a carton. You can drink it, or you can pour it on cereal.
Milk is also used to make cheese, butter, and yogurt.
What does a cow eat? in the text
Who takes care of the cows? in the text
Where does the truck take the milk? in the text
What foods are made from milk? in the text
Why does a cow need to eat and drink so much? think about it
How does milk get to the store? 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 cow eats grass. She drinks water. Her body turns the grass into milk. A cow can give many cups of milk each day.
A farmer cares for the cows. The farmer gets the milk. A big truck takes the milk to a factory. There, the milk is made safe to drink.
Then the milk goes to a store in a carton. You can drink it. You can pour it on cereal.
Milk makes cheese, butter, and yogurt.
A cow eats grass and drinks water all day. Her body turns the grass into milk. A cow can give many cups of milk each day.
A farmer takes care of the cows. The farmer gets the milk from the cow. A big truck takes the milk to a factory. There, the milk is made safe to drink.
Then the milk goes to a store in a carton. You can drink it, or you can pour it on cereal.
Milk is also used to make cheese, butter, and yogurt.
A cow spends her whole day eating grass and drinking water, and her body turns the grass into milk. A single cow can give many cups of milk every day.
A farmer looks after the cows and collects the milk. A large truck carries the milk to a factory, where it is made safe to drink.
After that, the milk travels to a store in a carton. You can drink it, or you can pour it over your cereal.
Milk is also used to make cheese, butter, and yogurt.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.4. 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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