Kindergarten nonfiction passage about making butter by hand: 61 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
On old farms, families made their own butter. They began with cream from a cow.
The cream went into a churn. A churn is a tall tub with a long stick. A child could push the stick up and down.
Up and down, up and down. Soon the cream turned thick and yellow. It was butter! Spread it on warm bread.
What did the families begin with? in the text
What is a churn? in the text
What did the child do with the stick? in the text
What color was the butter? in the text
Why did the child keep pushing the stick? 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.
On old farms, families made butter. They began with cream from a cow.
The cream went in a churn. A churn is a tall tub with a long stick. A child pushed the stick up and down.
Up and down. Soon the cream was thick and yellow. It was butter! Put it on warm bread.
On old farms, families made their own butter. They began with cream from a cow.
The cream went into a churn. A churn is a tall tub with a long stick. A child could push the stick up and down.
Up and down, up and down. Soon the cream turned thick and yellow. It was butter! Spread it on warm bread.
On farms in the old days, families often made their own butter. They started with fresh cream from their cow.
The cream was poured into a churn, which is a tall tub with a long stick inside. A child could push the stick up and down again and again.
After a while, the cream grew thick and turned yellow. At last it was butter, ready to be spread on a slice of warm bread.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 61 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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.
About 1 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.
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