Kindergarten nonfiction passage about fingerprints: 73 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at the tip of your finger. Do you see tiny lines? Some lines curl in a swirl. Some make a loop.
These lines make a fingerprint. Press a finger on a soft ink pad. Then press it on paper. You will see your print.
Your prints are yours. No one else has the same ones. Not even your best friend!
The lines help you hold things. They help you grip a cup.
What do you see on the tip of your finger? in the text
What shapes can the lines make? in the text
What do you press your finger on to make a print? in the text
What do the lines help you do? in the text
Why can your fingerprint tell people it is you? 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.
Look at a finger. See the lines? Some are swirls. Some are loops.
The lines make a print. Dip a finger in ink. Press it on paper. See it?
No one has a print like yours. The lines help you hold a cup.
Look at the tip of your finger. Do you see tiny lines? Some lines curl in a swirl. Some make a loop.
These lines make a fingerprint. Press a finger on a soft ink pad. Then press it on paper. You will see your print.
Your prints are yours. No one else has the same ones. Not even your best friend!
The lines help you hold things. They help you grip a cup.
Look closely at the tip of your finger. Can you see the very tiny lines there? Some of the lines curl into a swirl, and some of them make a loop.
Together, these lines make a fingerprint. If you press your finger on a soft ink pad and then on paper, you will see your own print.
Nobody else has the same prints as you, not even your best friend. The lines also help you grip things, like a cup.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 73 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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