Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how beavers build: 47 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A beaver has strong front teeth. It can chew sticks and logs.
The beaver puts sticks in a stream. It adds mud. The sticks make a dam. The water stops and makes a pond.
The beaver builds its home in the pond. The water keeps it safe.
What does a beaver chew? in the text
What does the beaver add to the sticks? in the text
What does the dam make? in the text
Where does the beaver build its home? in the text
Why does a beaver need strong teeth? 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 beaver has strong teeth. It chews sticks.
It puts sticks in a stream. It adds mud. This is a dam. The water stops. A pond forms.
The beaver builds a home in the pond. It is safe.
A beaver has strong front teeth. It can chew sticks and logs.
The beaver puts sticks in a stream. It adds mud. The sticks make a dam. The water stops and makes a pond.
The beaver builds its home in the pond. The water keeps it safe.
A beaver has very strong front teeth, and it can chew right through sticks and even small logs.
The beaver carries the sticks to a stream and piles them up. It packs mud between them. Together, the sticks and mud form a dam, which holds back the water and makes a pond.
Then the beaver builds its home in the middle of the pond, where the water helps keep it safe.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 47 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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