Kindergarten nonfiction passage about letters before email: 52 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Before email, people wrote letters. They wrote on paper with a pen.
They folded the paper. They put it in an envelope. They put a stamp on it.
A mail carrier took the letter in a bag. It went far. Then I got a happy surprise. A letter was in my mailbox!
What did people write letters on? in the text
Where did the folded paper go? in the text
What went on the front of the envelope? in the text
Who took the letter in a bag? in the text
Why was the person happy to find a letter in the mailbox? 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.
Long ago, people wrote letters. They used a pen.
They put the paper in an envelope. They put a stamp on it.
A mail carrier took it in a bag. It went far. Then a man got a happy letter.
Before email, people wrote letters. They wrote on paper with a pen.
They folded the paper. They put it in an envelope. They put a stamp on it.
A mail carrier took the letter in a bag. It went far. Then I got a happy surprise. A letter was in my mailbox!
Before people had email, they wrote letters by hand. A writer would use a pen and a sheet of paper.
Next, the writer folded the paper, slid it into an envelope, and stuck a stamp on the front.
A mail carrier then put the letter into a bag and carried it along its journey. After it had traveled far away, someone opened the mailbox and found a happy surprise.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 52 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.1. 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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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