Kindergarten nonfiction passage about strawberry seeds: 56 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Most fruits keep their seeds inside. A strawberry is not like that.
Look at a strawberry. See the tiny dots on its red skin? Each dot holds a seed, so the seeds sit on the outside.
A strawberry grows on a low plant. It grows close to the ground. I pick one and take a bite.
Where do most fruits keep their seeds? in the text
What color is the skin of a strawberry? in the text
What do the tiny dots hold? in the text
How tall is the plant that grows a strawberry? in the text
How is a strawberry different from most fruits? 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.
Most fruits have seeds inside. A strawberry is not like that.
Look at one. It has dots on its red skin. Each dot has a seed.
A strawberry grows close to the ground. I pick one. Yum!
Most fruits keep their seeds inside. A strawberry is not like that.
Look at a strawberry. See the tiny dots on its red skin? Each dot holds a seed, so the seeds sit on the outside.
A strawberry grows on a low plant. It grows close to the ground. I pick one and take a bite.
Most fruits keep their seeds hidden inside. A strawberry is different.
Look closely at a strawberry. Do you see the tiny dots scattered over its red skin? Each dot holds a seed, so the seeds sit on the outside of the fruit.
A strawberry grows on a low plant, close to the ground. I pick one and take a big bite.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 56 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.8. 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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