Lawn Mowers Reading Comprehension Passage
- Grades
- Grades 3–6, Elementary, Middle School
- Pages
- 8
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Science, Technology
- Topic
- lawn mowers reading comprehension, informational text
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- CCSS.RI.3.1 CCSS.RI.3.4 +1
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This lawn mowers reading comprehension passage explains how a familiar machine keeps grass short. Across two pages, students read how a reel mower snips grass the way scissors do, while a rotary mower strikes it with one fast-spinning blade hidden under a deck. The text also covers the safety bar, where clippings go, Edwin Budding's 1830 patent, the move to gas, battery and robot mowers, and why no single mower suits every yard. A labeled side-view diagram and a front view of a reel mower sit beside the text.
Four question pages follow, arranged in eight sections. Students answer five multiple-choice items, write words such as clippings, scythe and upkeep into short scene sentences, label a blank mower diagram and put four events from mowing history in order. They then finish a cause-and-effect chart, compare reel, gas and battery mowers on cutting, noise and upkeep, answer three short questions in full sentences and write a paragraph choosing a mower for a small city yard.
- Grades 3–6: informational reading about everyday technology
- Eight pages: a two-page passage, four question pages and a two-page answer key with model responses
- Print options: a full-color PDF and a print-friendly black and white PDF
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify the main idea of a section of informational text.
Determine the meaning of words such as upkeep and exhaust from context.
Label a diagram and explain why a hidden part is drawn with dashed lines.
Teaching tips
Point out the side-view diagram on page 1 during "Parts You Can't See"; the Label the Mower task on page 4 reuses the same drawing with the labels removed.
Talk through the completed example row in Cause and Effect, where letting go of the safety bar stops the blade, before students fill in the other three rows.
Share the 4-point scoring guide from the key before students write the Your Choice paragraph: a clear choice, two accurate facts and how those facts fit a small yard.
Skills covered
Main idea: students choose the sentence that sums up the two ways mowers cut, by snipping or by striking.
Vocabulary in context: students define upkeep from a sentence in the passage and write words such as clippings, scythe and boundary into scene sentences.
Text features: students label five parts on a mower diagram and explain why the blade is shown with dashed lines.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
What grade level is this lawn mower passage for?
It is written for grades 3–6 informational reading. Words such as scythe and upkeep are explained or shown through examples in the passage.
What do students learn about lawn mowers?
How reel and rotary mowers cut, what the deck and safety bar do, how Edwin Budding's 1830 invention led to gas, battery and robot mowers, and the trade-offs between mower types in noise, exhaust and upkeep.
Does it come with an answer key?
Yes. The two-page key gives a reason for every multiple-choice answer, model answers for the charts and short questions, and a 4-point guide for the opinion paragraph.
Can I print it in black and white?
Yes. You get a full-color PDF and a print-friendly black and white PDF of all eight pages.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- CCSS.RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.RI.3.4 — Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
- CCSS.RI.3.3 — Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Core concepts
Core concepts
informational text
main idea
context clues
diagrams
sequencing
cause and effect
compare and contrast
opinion writing
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