Say It Shorter is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on retelling an information text in one sentence, aligned to Common Core standard RI.1.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 18 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
18 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Say It Shorter
RI.1.2
NameDate
Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
How Milk Gets to the Shop
A dairy cow is milked twice a day, in the morning and the evening.
The milk goes straight into a cold tank. Cold milk keeps fresh much longer than warm milk.
A tanker takes the milk to a dairy. There it is heated for a few seconds to kill germs, then cooled again fast. This is called pasteurising.
Last, the milk is poured into bottles and driven to the shop.
1. Summarise this text in one sentence.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
From Flower to Jar
A honeybee visits about a hundred flowers on one trip. She sucks up nectar and stores it in a special stomach.
Back at the hive, she passes the nectar to another bee. That bee chews it for about half an hour. Then it goes into a wax cell.
The bees fan the cell with their wings. The water dries out and the nectar thickens into honey. Then the cell is sealed with wax.
1. Summarise this text in one sentence.
LessonPrint · RI.1.2 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Say It Shorter
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Milk is taken from the cow twice a day, cooled, pasteurised at the dairy, bottled and driven to the shop.
2.1. Bees collect nectar, chew it, store it in wax cells and fan it dry until it becomes honey.
Questions about Say It Shorter
What does the Say It Shorter worksheet cover?
It practises retelling an information text in one sentence — 2 questions for Grade 1, all on Common Core RI.1.2: Say what the text is mostly about and give the key facts. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Say It Shorter practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2 — RI.1.2, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Grade 1. The published standard reads: “Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Say It Shorter is written for Grade 1, typically ages 6-7. It is one of the sheets on RI.1.2, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Say It Shorter come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Say It Shorter can I print?
25 versions, of which 18 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is Say It Shorter free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Say It Shorter, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RI.1.2
Say what the text is mostly about and give the key facts.