Kindergarten nonfiction passage about planting a bean: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
You can grow a bean in a cup. Here is how.
Get a clear cup. Put a wet paper towel inside. Slide a bean between the cup and the paper towel.
Put the cup by a sunny window. Add a little water each day. Look at the bean every day. Soon you will see a root and a shoot!
What kind of cup do you get? in the text
What goes inside the cup? in the text
Where do you put the cup? in the text
What do you add each day? in the text
Why is a clear cup a good choice? 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.
You can grow a bean. Get a clear cup. Put a wet paper towel in it. Slide a bean in.
Put the cup by a sunny window. Add a little water each day.
Look at the bean. A root and a shoot will grow!
You can grow a bean in a cup. Here is how.
Get a clear cup. Put a wet paper towel inside. Slide a bean between the cup and the paper towel.
Put the cup by a sunny window. Add a little water each day. Look at the bean every day. Soon you will see a root and a shoot!
You can watch a bean grow right in your own kitchen. Here is how to do it.
Find a clear cup and put a damp paper towel inside it. Then slide a bean down between the cup and the paper towel, so that you can see it through the side.
Set the cup near a sunny window, and add a small splash of water every day. Check on the bean often. Before long, you will spot a root and a shoot!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.2. 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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