Kindergarten nonfiction passage about the globe: 56 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A globe is a round map. It is shaped like our Earth. It can spin.
Most of a globe is blue. The blue is water. The water is the sea.
Some parts are green or brown. Those parts are land. We live on the land.
Spin the globe. Point to the blue. Point to the land.
What shape is a globe? in the text
What is the blue on a globe? in the text
What do the green and brown parts show? in the text
Can a globe spin? in the text
Where do we live on the globe? 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 globe is a round map. It looks like our Earth. It can spin.
Most of a globe is blue. Blue is the sea.
Green and brown are land. We live on land.
Spin the globe. Find the blue. Find the land.
A globe is a round map. It is shaped like our Earth. It can spin.
Most of a globe is blue. The blue is water. The water is the sea.
Some parts are green or brown. Those parts are land. We live on the land.
Spin the globe. Point to the blue. Point to the land.
A globe is a round map that is shaped like our planet Earth. Because it is round, it can spin in your hands.
Most of a globe is painted blue, and the blue shows the sea. The green and brown parts show the land where people live.
Spin the globe slowly. Point to the blue water, and then point to the land where you live.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 56 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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