Kindergarten nonfiction passage about bees and flowers: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A bee flies to a flower. The flower has a sweet drink inside. The bee sips it.
Yellow dust called pollen sticks to the bee. The bee flies to the next flower. Some pollen rubs off there.
This helps the flowers make seeds. The bee gets food. The flowers get help. Buzz, buzz!
What does the bee sip from the flower? in the text
What sticks to the bee? in the text
Where does the bee fly next? in the text
What does the pollen help the flowers make? in the text
How do the bee and the flowers help each other? 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 bee flies to a flower. The flower has a sweet drink. The bee sips it.
Pollen sticks to the bee. The bee flies to a new flower. Some pollen rubs off.
Now the flower can make seeds. Buzz!
A bee flies to a flower. The flower has a sweet drink inside. The bee sips it.
Yellow dust called pollen sticks to the bee. The bee flies to the next flower. Some pollen rubs off there.
This helps the flowers make seeds. The bee gets food. The flowers get help. Buzz, buzz!
A busy bee flies over to a bright flower. Deep inside the flower is a sweet drink, and the bee sips it up.
While the bee is there, yellow dust called pollen sticks to its fuzzy body. When the bee flies off to the next flower, some of that pollen rubs off.
This helps the flowers make seeds. The bee finds its food, and the flowers get the help they need. Buzz, buzz!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.3. 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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