Kindergarten nonfiction passage about candles for light: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Today we flip a switch and a light comes on. Long ago, there was no switch.
At night, a family lit a candle. The small flame gave a soft glow. It lit up a table or a book.
A candle gets shorter as it burns. When it is gone, you need a new one.
What do we do today to turn on a light? in the text
What did a family light at night long ago? in the text
What kind of glow did the flame give? in the text
What happens to a candle as it burns? in the text
Why did a family need a new candle after a while? 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.
Now we flip a switch. A light comes on. Long ago, there was no switch.
At night, a family lit a candle. The flame gave a soft glow. It lit a table or a book.
A candle gets short as it burns. Then you need a new one.
Today we flip a switch and a light comes on. Long ago, there was no switch.
At night, a family lit a candle. The small flame gave a soft glow. It lit up a table or a book.
A candle gets shorter as it burns. When it is gone, you need a new one.
Today we simply flip a switch and a light turns on, but long ago, homes had no such switches.
When night came, a family lit a candle instead. The small flame gave off a soft glow that was just bright enough to light up a table or the pages of a book.
As a candle burns, it slowly becomes shorter. Once it has burned away completely, the family needs to light a new one.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 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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