Measure Your Foot
How long is your foot? Ask an adult to help you find out.
You will need:
- A large sheet of paper
- A pencil
- A plain ruler with inch marks
Steps
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Put the paper on a flat, stable floor. Take off one shoe and sock.
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Stand with one foot flat on the paper. Hold still while the adult traces around your foot with the pencil.
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Step off the paper. Find the back of the heel and the tip of the longest toe on the outline.
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With the adult, make a small mark at each of these two points. The longest toe is not always the big toe.
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Lay the ruler from the heel mark toward the toe mark. Put the ruler’s zero mark at the heel mark, not the end of the ruler.
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Look at where the toe mark meets the ruler. Read the number of inches there. If it falls between inch marks, ask the adult to help you read it.
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Write the number on the paper. Then measure your other foot the same way.
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Compare the two numbers. Is one greater, or are they the same?
Feet can be different lengths. That is okay!
Foot length alone does not tell you if a shoe will fit. A shoe needs to feel good around your whole foot.
- stable:
- Firm and not likely to move.
- traces:
- Draws a line around something.
- outline:
- A line showing the outside shape of something.
- inches:
- Units used to measure length.
- Compare:
- Look at things to see how they are alike or different.
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- 1What does this passage teach you to measure?
- 2Who should help you measure your foot?
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About this how-to / procedural passage for Lower Elementary
“Measure Your Foot” is a how-to / procedural reading passage about Measurement, written for Lower Elementary. It takes about 2 minutes to read (228 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.