Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how bread dough rises: 51 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Bread dough starts out small. A baker mixes in yeast. Yeast is a tiny living thing.
The yeast makes bubbles in the dough. The bubbles push. The dough gets big and puffy.
Then a grown-up bakes it in a hot oven. The bread is soft. It has tiny holes inside.
What does a baker mix into the dough? in the text
What does the yeast make in the dough? in the text
Where does the bread bake? in the text
What is inside the baked bread? in the text
Why does the dough get big? 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.
Bread dough is small. A baker adds yeast. Yeast is a tiny living thing.
The yeast makes bubbles. The bubbles push. The dough gets big.
A grown-up bakes it in a hot oven. The bread is soft.
Bread dough starts out small. A baker mixes in yeast. Yeast is a tiny living thing.
The yeast makes bubbles in the dough. The bubbles push. The dough gets big and puffy.
Then a grown-up bakes it in a hot oven. The bread is soft. It has tiny holes inside.
Bread dough starts out small and flat. A baker mixes in yeast, which is a tiny living thing.
The yeast makes bubbles all through the dough. The bubbles push outward, and the dough slowly grows big and puffy.
Then a grown-up bakes it in a hot oven. The finished bread is soft, with tiny holes inside.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 51 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.0. 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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