Kindergarten nonfiction passage about humming and voice: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Try this. Put your hand on your neck. Now hum. Mmmmm!
Can you feel it? Your neck buzzes. It tickles a little!
The buzz is your voice. It starts in your neck. Then it comes out of your mouth as a sound. Hum a high hum. Hum a low hum. Your neck buzzes each time.
Where do you put your hand? in the text
What do you feel when you hum? in the text
Where does the buzz start? in the text
What is the buzz? in the text
What happens when you stop humming? think about it
The same topic and facts written three ways, so a mixed class can read and talk about one text. Each group’s sheet shows only a shape; the key says which is which.
Try this. Put a hand on your neck. Now hum. Mmmm!
Do you feel it? Your neck buzzes. It tickles!
The buzz is your voice. It starts in your neck. Then it comes out of your mouth. Hum high. Hum low. Your neck buzzes.
Try this. Put your hand on your neck. Now hum. Mmmmm!
Can you feel it? Your neck buzzes. It tickles a little!
The buzz is your voice. It starts in your neck. Then it comes out of your mouth as a sound. Hum a high hum. Hum a low hum. Your neck buzzes each time.
Here is an experiment you can try right now. Rest your hand gently on your neck, and then begin to hum. Mmmmm!
Can you feel something? Your neck buzzes, and it tickles a little bit.
That buzzing is your voice. It starts inside your neck, and then it travels out of your mouth as a sound. Try humming a high note and then a low note. Your neck buzzes every time you hum.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about below 1. That is a formula's estimate from sentence length and syllables, and it is not a Lexile or a guided reading level, so check it against your students.
There are five. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 1 ask the reader to work something out from clues. Each has an answer in the key, and the answers are written as a teacher would accept them, not as the only possible wording.
Under a minute read aloud at 100 words a minute. For a one-minute fluency check, paste it into the fluency timer and use the word count.
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