1st grade nonfiction passage about plant parts we eat: 97 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Plants have parts, and we eat many of them. A carrot is a root. It grows down in the soil. Celery is a stem. It is crunchy and long.
Lettuce is a leaf. We put it in salads and on sandwiches. Broccoli is a bunch of flower buds that have not opened yet.
An apple is a fruit, and it holds seeds. A pea is a seed. Next time you eat a meal, stop and ask which part of the plant you are eating. It is fun to guess, and it is a good way to learn!
Which part of the plant is a carrot? in the text
Which part of the plant is celery? in the text
Where do we put lettuce leaves? in the text
What is a pea? in the text
Why does a carrot grow down in the soil? 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.
We eat many parts of plants. A carrot is a root. It grows down in the soil. Celery is a stem. It is long and crunchy.
Lettuce is a leaf. We put it in salads. Broccoli is a bunch of flower buds.
An apple is a fruit. It has seeds in it. A pea is a seed. What part of a plant are you eating?
Plants have parts, and we eat many of them. A carrot is a root. It grows down in the soil. Celery is a stem. It is crunchy and long.
Lettuce is a leaf. We put it in salads and on sandwiches. Broccoli is a bunch of flower buds that have not opened yet.
An apple is a fruit, and it holds seeds. A pea is a seed. Next time you eat a meal, stop and ask which part of the plant you are eating. It is fun to guess, and it is a good way to learn!
Plants are made of different parts, and people eat many of those parts. A carrot is a root, and it grows down in the soil. Celery is a stem, and it is long, thin, and crunchy.
Lettuce is a leaf, and we like to put it in salads and on sandwiches. Broccoli is actually a bunch of flower buds that have not opened yet.
An apple is a fruit, and it holds seeds inside. A pea is a seed. The next time you sit down to a meal, try to guess which part of the plant is on your plate.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 97 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.2. 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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