A cloze story for 1st grade science about the daily pattern of the sun, moon, and stars. Students choose from a 12-word bank that hides two extra words, clouds and rain, to finish a story in three parts. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, night brings stars and the moon, and the last blank calls the whole cycle a predictable pattern. A final task has students write and illustrate a sentence with one word from the bank.
1-ESS1-1
“Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.”
Part 3 names the idea with the word pattern. Parts 1 and 2 describe the pattern itself, from sunrise in the east to stars and the moon at night.
Six blanks trace one day: a new day begins, the sun rises in the east, moves across the blue sky, and sets in the west.
Three blanks for night, stars, and the moon, once the sun has gone down.
A single blank, where students name the repeating cycle a predictable pattern.
Students pick one word from the bank, write their own sentence about the sky, and draw a picture to match it.
Distractor talk
Tell students up front that two words will not fit. Afterward, ask why clouds and rain do not belong in a story about daily patterns.
Partner reading
Have pairs read the finished story aloud to each other. Saying east and west in the right places helps the direction words stick.
Early finishers
Draw and Write gives fast workers something useful to do while others complete the story.
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