Kindergarten nonfiction passage about moon craters: 48 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
The moon has big round dents. They are called craters.
Rocks from space hit the moon. Bump! The rocks make dents. Some craters are small. Some are very big.
On the moon, there is no wind to fill them up. We can see the craters with a telescope.
What are the round dents on the moon called? in the text
What makes the dents? in the text
Are all the craters the same size? in the text
What can we use to see the craters? in the text
Why do the craters stay on the moon? 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.
The moon has round dents. They are craters.
Rocks hit the moon. Bump! The rocks make dents. Some are small. Some are big.
No wind is on the moon. So the dents stay. We can see them with a telescope.
The moon has big round dents. They are called craters.
Rocks from space hit the moon. Bump! The rocks make dents. Some craters are small. Some are very big.
On the moon, there is no wind to fill them up. We can see the craters with a telescope.
The moon has many big, round dents in its ground. They are called craters.
Long ago, rocks from space crashed into the moon. Bump! Each rock made a dent. Some craters are quite small, but some are very large.
The moon has no wind, so nothing fills the craters up again. If we look through a telescope, we can see them clearly.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 48 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.
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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