IXL | Read along about food | 1st grade language arts

Listen and read along with the passage about pizza.

What do you want for dinner tonight? If you said pizza, you're not alone. Pizza is one of the world's most loved foods.

Pizza was first made long ago in Italy. Flat circles of bread were topped with tomato sauce and cheese. Sometimes people added meat or vegetables. As people in different places learned about pizza, they came up with new ways to make it.

Today, many places have their own special kinds of pizza. New York is famous for big pizza slices with thin crust. Chicago is known for thick pizza baked in deep pans. In Sweden, you can order pizza topped with fruits like raisins or bananas.

Pizza can be made with lots of different doughs, sauces, and toppings. With so many different choices, picking your favorite pizza can be hard!

How were the first pizzas in Italy made?

They were made on pieces of bread.

They were made in big square pans.

They were made with raisins on top.

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Listen and read along with the passage about bento boxes.

A bento box is a special kind of lunch box. For hundreds of years, people in Japan have used bento boxes to take their meals to work and to school.

Bento boxes often have separate places inside for different kinds of food. They're great for taking your meal with you wherever you go. Bento boxes often have rice, some kind of meat, and vegetables. But you can put all kinds of food in a bento box.

People often make the food in their bento boxes look like art. Some create animal shapes made of rice. Others cut fruits and vegetables to make flowers or designs.

A good bento box should contain a healthy meal. But the food can look pretty too. There's an art to making a bento box meal—art you can eat!

Where have bento boxes been used for hundreds of years?

Japan

India

the United States

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The passage says people in Japan have used bento boxes for hundreds of years.

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