All About Snowflakes: Grade 1 Reading Passage

About this worksheet

A first grade science passage about how snowflakes form in cold clouds, why they have six sides and why snow looks white. A free printable 1st grade nonfiction passage (73 words) with multiple-choice where/how many questions, true-or-false sentences and a box to draw in. Answer key on page 2. First graders can read it on their own and ask for help only with the trickier words.

On this sheet

Snowflakes form high up in cold clouds. A snowflake starts as a tiny bit of ice around a speck of dust. As it falls, more ice sticks to it, and it grows. Most snowflakes have six sides or six arms. No two snowflakes look exactly the same. A snowflake is made of clear ice. When lots of flakes pile up, the snow looks white.

Tips for using it

• Before reading, look at the picture and the title together and guess what the passage will be about.
• Ask your child to underline the sentence in the passage that proves each answer.
• Talk about the story afterwards: what was the problem, how was it solved, and what would your child have done?

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.