1st grade nonfiction passage about apples float: 90 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Fill a sink with water. Put in a whole apple. Plop! The apple does not sink. It bobs on top.
Why does it float? Look inside an apple. It has a lot of tiny spaces. The spaces are full of air. Air is very light. It helps the apple stay on top of the water.
Now think of a grape. It has few air spaces. It sinks.
Apples float, so some farms use water at harvest time. The water helps move the apples. A bobbing apple is easy to catch.
Where do we put the apple in this story? in the text
Does the apple sink or float? in the text
What fills the tiny spaces inside an apple? in the text
What does a grape do in water? in the text
Why does an apple float but a grape sink? 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.
Fill a sink with water. Put in an apple. Plop! The apple does not sink. It bobs on top.
Why? An apple has tiny spaces inside. The spaces hold air. Air is light. It helps the apple float.
A grape has few air spaces. It sinks.
Some farms use water at harvest time. The apples float, so they are easy to catch.
Fill a sink with water. Put in a whole apple. Plop! The apple does not sink. It bobs on top.
Why does it float? Look inside an apple. It has a lot of tiny spaces. The spaces are full of air. Air is very light. It helps the apple stay on top of the water.
Now think of a grape. It has few air spaces. It sinks.
Apples float, so some farms use water at harvest time. The water helps move the apples. A bobbing apple is easy to catch.
Imagine filling a kitchen sink with water and dropping in a whole apple. Plop! Instead of sinking, the apple bobs along on the surface.
Why does it float? If you could look inside an apple, you would find lots of tiny spaces. Those spaces are filled with air, and air is very light, so it helps the apple stay on top of the water.
A grape is different. It has only a few air spaces inside, so it sinks right down.
Because apples float, some farms use water at harvest time. The water helps carry the apples along, and a bobbing apple is easy to catch.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 90 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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