1st grade nonfiction passage about flamingo color and food: 89 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A flamingo is a tall bird with long, thin legs. Its feathers are pink. But a baby flamingo is not pink. It is gray.
So how does a flamingo turn pink? The answer is its food. A flamingo wades in shallow water. It scoops up tiny plants and tiny shrimp. These foods have a color in them. The color goes into the bird, and the feathers turn pink.
If a flamingo did not eat these foods, it would be pale. A flamingo is pink because of what it eats.
What color is a baby flamingo? in the text
Where does a flamingo wade? in the text
What does a flamingo scoop up to eat? in the text
What makes the flamingo's feathers turn pink? in the text
What would happen if a flamingo did not eat these foods? 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 flamingo is a tall bird. It has long, thin legs and pink feathers. But a baby flamingo is gray.
How does it turn pink? Its food does it. A flamingo wades in shallow water. It eats tiny plants and tiny shrimp. They have a color in them. The color goes into the bird. Its feathers turn pink.
Without this food, it would be pale.
A flamingo is a tall bird with long, thin legs. Its feathers are pink. But a baby flamingo is not pink. It is gray.
So how does a flamingo turn pink? The answer is its food. A flamingo wades in shallow water. It scoops up tiny plants and tiny shrimp. These foods have a color in them. The color goes into the bird, and the feathers turn pink.
If a flamingo did not eat these foods, it would be pale. A flamingo is pink because of what it eats.
A flamingo is a tall bird with long, thin legs and bright pink feathers. A baby flamingo, however, is not pink at all. It is gray.
So how does a flamingo turn pink? The answer lies in its food. A flamingo wades through shallow water and scoops up tiny plants and tiny shrimp. These foods contain a color, which goes into the bird's body and turns its feathers pink.
If a flamingo did not eat these foods, it would be pale. A flamingo is pink because of what it eats.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 89 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.4. 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 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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