Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how a seed sprouts: 50 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A seed is a tiny plant that is asleep. It needs water and warm dirt to wake up.
First, the seed drinks water and gets fat. Then a little root grows down. A green shoot grows up.
The shoot gets sun. It grows leaves. Now the seed is a plant!
What does a seed need to wake up? in the text
Which part grows down first? in the text
Which part grows up? in the text
What does the shoot grow after it gets sun? in the text
Why does the seed get fat? 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.
A seed is a tiny plant. It is asleep. Water wakes it up. Warm dirt helps too.
The seed gets fat. A root grows down. A shoot grows up.
The shoot gets sun. It grows leaves.
A seed is a tiny plant that is asleep. It needs water and warm dirt to wake up.
First, the seed drinks water and gets fat. Then a little root grows down. A green shoot grows up.
The shoot gets sun. It grows leaves. Now the seed is a plant!
A seed is a tiny plant that is sleeping inside a hard shell. To wake up, it needs water and warm, soft dirt.
First, the seed soaks up water and swells until it is fat. Then a little root pushes down into the dirt, and a green shoot pushes up toward the light.
When the shoot gets sunshine, it grows its first leaves. Now the seed has become a real plant!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 50 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.
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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