Kindergarten nonfiction passage about florists: 47 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A florist works with flowers. She picks red flowers and yellow flowers. She picks green leaves too.
She snips the stems with scissors. Snip! Then she puts the flowers in a bunch.
She ties the bunch with a ribbon. Someone will smell the flowers. Someone will smile.
What does a florist work with? in the text
What does she use to snip the stems? in the text
What does she tie around the bunch? in the text
What colors of flowers does she pick? in the text
Why might someone smile at the flowers? 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.
A florist works with flowers. She picks red ones. She picks yellow ones. She picks green leaves.
She snips the stems. Snip! She makes a bunch.
She ties it with a ribbon. Someone will smile.
A florist works with flowers. She picks red flowers and yellow flowers. She picks green leaves too.
She snips the stems with scissors. Snip! Then she puts the flowers in a bunch.
She ties the bunch with a ribbon. Someone will smell the flowers. Someone will smile.
A florist is a person who works with flowers all day long. She chooses bright red flowers and sunny yellow ones, and she adds some green leaves as well.
Next, she snips the stems with scissors so they are all the same length. Then she gathers the flowers together into one neat bunch.
Finally, she ties the bunch with a pretty ribbon. Soon someone will smell the flowers, and that person will smile.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 47 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.8. 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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