Kindergarten nonfiction passage about making a clay pinch pot: 65 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Clay is soft and a little wet. You can make a pinch pot with it.
Roll the clay into a ball. Push your thumb into the middle. Pinch the sides with your fingers. Turn it and pinch again. Now you have a little bowl.
Set the pot on a shelf. Wait a few days. The water in the clay dries up. The pot gets hard.
What is clay like at first? in the text
What do you push into the middle? in the text
What do you have after you pinch the sides? in the text
Where do you set the pot? in the text
Why does the pot get hard? 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.
Clay is soft and a bit wet. You can make a pinch pot.
Roll the clay in a ball. Push your thumb in the middle. Pinch the sides. Turn it and pinch again. Now it is a little bowl.
Put the pot on a shelf. Wait a few days. The water dries up. The pot gets hard.
Clay is soft and a little wet. You can make a pinch pot with it.
Roll the clay into a ball. Push your thumb into the middle. Pinch the sides with your fingers. Turn it and pinch again. Now you have a little bowl.
Set the pot on a shelf. Wait a few days. The water in the clay dries up. The pot gets hard.
Clay is soft and slightly damp when you first get it, and you can shape it into a pinch pot.
Begin by rolling the clay into a smooth ball. Press your thumb into the middle, and then pinch the sides gently with your fingers. Turn the clay a little and pinch again until you have a small bowl.
Set the finished pot on a shelf and wait for a few days. The water inside the clay slowly dries up, and the pot becomes hard.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 65 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.
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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