Mesopotamia Passage Worksheet
Grade 1 • Nonfiction Reading
The Land Between Two Rivers
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Life by the Big Rivers
Read the text carefully!
Long ago, people built towns in a land called Mesopotamia. Two giant rivers gave people clean water to drink and cook.
Farmers planted tasty crops like wheat in the soft mud. Families mixed wet clay and straw to make strong sun-dried bricks for their homes.
Word Box (Glossary)
• crops: plants grown by farmers for food
• bricks: hard building blocks made of mud
TIGRIS RIVER
Mud Brick Home
Caption Families built clay homes next to the river for water.
Fact Box: Mesopotamia means "between the rivers!"
Text Feature Detective Questions
1 Look at the heading at the top. What does the heading tell you?
What the story is mostly about
How to write your name
2 Why did the author make the word crops bold?
It is an important new word
It is a word you should skip
3 Read the caption under the picture. Where did families build their homes?
Families built homes next to the .
4 Look at the Word Box. What were bricks made of?
Mud and clay
Leaves and ice
