Kindergarten nonfiction passage about the sundial: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A sundial is a clock with no gears. It uses the sun.
A sundial has a flat plate and a tall stick. The sun shines on the stick. The stick makes a shadow on the plate.
As the day goes on, the shadow moves. The place where it falls tells the time.
A sundial does not work at night.
What does a sundial use to tell time? in the text
What two parts does a sundial have? in the text
What does the stick make on the plate? in the text
What moves as the day goes on? in the text
Why does a sundial not work at night? 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 sundial is a clock. It has no gears. It uses the sun.
It has a flat plate and a tall stick. The sun shines on the stick. The stick makes a shadow.
The shadow moves in the day. Where it falls tells the time.
A sundial does not work at night.
A sundial is a clock with no gears. It uses the sun.
A sundial has a flat plate and a tall stick. The sun shines on the stick. The stick makes a shadow on the plate.
As the day goes on, the shadow moves. The place where it falls tells the time.
A sundial does not work at night.
A sundial is a kind of clock that has no gears at all. Instead, it uses the light of the sun.
It is made of a flat plate and a tall stick. When the sun shines on the stick, the stick casts a shadow across the plate.
As the hours of the day pass, the shadow slowly moves. The spot where the shadow falls tells you the time.
Of course, a sundial cannot work at night.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.9. 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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