Kindergarten nonfiction passage about bike mechanics: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Ben rides his bike. Pssst! The tire goes flat. He walks the bike to a bike shop.
The mechanic takes off the tire. She finds a tiny hole. She puts a patch on the hole. The patch is like a sticker.
Then she pumps air into the tire. The tire gets round and hard. Ben can ride again.
What happens to Ben's tire? in the text
Where does Ben take the bike? in the text
What does the mechanic put on the hole? in the text
What does she pump into the tire? in the text
Why was the tire flat? 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.
Ben rides his bike. Pssst! The tire is flat. He walks to a bike shop.
The mechanic finds a tiny hole. She puts a patch on it. A patch is like a sticker.
She pumps air in. The tire is round. Ben can ride.
Ben rides his bike. Pssst! The tire goes flat. He walks the bike to a bike shop.
The mechanic takes off the tire. She finds a tiny hole. She puts a patch on the hole. The patch is like a sticker.
Then she pumps air into the tire. The tire gets round and hard. Ben can ride again.
Ben is riding his bike when, with a loud pssst, the tire goes flat. He walks the bike all the way to a bike shop.
The mechanic removes the tire and searches until she finds a tiny hole. She covers the hole with a patch, which works a bit like a sticker.
Then she pumps fresh air into the tire until it is round and firm again. Now Ben can ride his bike wherever he wants.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 58 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.
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