1st grade nonfiction passage about breath clouds in cold air: 99 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
On a cold winter day, you can see your breath. It looks like a little cloud. Why?
Your breath has water in it. The water is a gas, so you cannot see it. Inside your body, it is warm.
When you breathe out, the warm gas meets cold air. The cold air cools it down. The gas turns into tiny drops of water. Now you can see the drops. They look like a cloud!
On a warm day, the air is not cold. The gas stays a gas. So there is no cloud. The tiny drops soon float away.
What can you see on a cold winter day? in the text
What is in your breath? in the text
Why can you not see the water inside your body? in the text
What does the cold air do to the warm gas? in the text
Why is there no breath cloud on a warm day? 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.
On a cold day, you can see your breath. It looks like a little cloud.
Your breath has water in it. The water is a gas. You cannot see a gas. In your body, it is warm.
You breathe out. The warm gas meets cold air. The cold air cools it. The gas turns into tiny drops of water. Now you can see them!
On a warm day, there is no cloud. The air is not cold.
On a cold winter day, you can see your breath. It looks like a little cloud. Why?
Your breath has water in it. The water is a gas, so you cannot see it. Inside your body, it is warm.
When you breathe out, the warm gas meets cold air. The cold air cools it down. The gas turns into tiny drops of water. Now you can see the drops. They look like a cloud!
On a warm day, the air is not cold. The gas stays a gas. So there is no cloud. The tiny drops soon float away.
On a cold winter morning, you can often see your breath. It looks like a small cloud that drifts away from your mouth. Why does this happen?
Your breath carries water in the form of a gas, which is invisible. Inside your body, the gas is warm.
When you breathe out, the warm gas meets the cold air outside. The cold air cools the gas quickly, and it turns into tiny drops of water. Those drops are easy to see, and together they look like a cloud.
On a warm day, the air is not cold enough to change the gas, so it stays invisible. The tiny drops that do form soon float away.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 99 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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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