Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how a rocket launches: 47 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A rocket sits on the ground. People count down. Ten, nine, eight, seven.
At zero, the rocket makes a lot of fire and smoke. The fire pushes down. The rocket goes up!
It goes up fast. Soon it is past the clouds. The rocket is in space.
What do people do before the rocket goes? in the text
What number do they stop at? in the text
What does the rocket make at zero? in the text
Which way does the fire push? in the text
What happens because the fire pushes down? 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 rocket sits on the ground. People count. Ten, nine, eight.
At zero, the rocket makes fire and smoke. The fire pushes down. The rocket goes up!
It goes fast. It goes past the clouds. It is in space.
A rocket sits on the ground. People count down. Ten, nine, eight, seven.
At zero, the rocket makes a lot of fire and smoke. The fire pushes down. The rocket goes up!
It goes up fast. Soon it is past the clouds. The rocket is in space.
A tall rocket sits quietly on the ground while people count down the seconds. Ten, nine, eight, seven.
When they reach zero, the rocket makes a huge amount of fire and smoke. The fire pushes down hard, and that push sends the rocket up!
It rises very fast. Soon it has passed the clouds and is far up in space.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 47 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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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