1st grade nonfiction passage about sleep and health: 71 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Every night, you go to bed and sleep. Sleep is very important. It helps your body and your brain.
While you sleep, your body rests. It grows a little, too. Your brain gets ready to learn new things the next day.
Kids need a lot of sleep. Most kids need about ten hours each night. A dark, quiet room helps.
When you wake up, you feel strong and ready to play.
When do you sleep? in the text
What does sleep help? in the text
How many hours of sleep do most kids need? in the text
What kind of room helps you sleep? in the text
Why might a kid feel tired if they stay up too late? think about it
How do you feel after a good sleep? in the text
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.
Every night, you go to bed. You sleep. Sleep is important. It helps your body and your brain.
When you sleep, your body rests. It grows a bit. Your brain gets ready to learn the next day.
Kids need lots of sleep. Most kids need ten hours. A dark, quiet room helps.
You wake up strong. You are ready to play.
Every night, you go to bed and sleep. Sleep is very important. It helps your body and your brain.
While you sleep, your body rests. It grows a little, too. Your brain gets ready to learn new things the next day.
Kids need a lot of sleep. Most kids need about ten hours each night. A dark, quiet room helps.
When you wake up, you feel strong and ready to play.
Every night, you climb into bed and fall asleep. Sleep is very important because it helps both your body and your brain.
While you sleep, your body rests and even grows a little. Your brain gets ready to learn new things the following day.
Kids need plenty of sleep, and most kids need about ten hours each night. A dark, quiet room makes it easier to sleep well.
When you wake up, you feel strong and ready to play.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 71 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.1. 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. 5 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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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