Kindergarten nonfiction passage about cave paintings: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Many, many years ago, people lived near caves. Some of them made art on the cave walls.
They put a hand on the wall. Then they blew paint around it. When the hand came away, a hand shape was left.
We can still see those hand shapes today. They tell us people were here.
Where did people make this art? in the text
What shape did the paint leave? in the text
What did people blow around the hand? in the text
Can we still see the hand shapes today? in the text
What do the hand shapes tell us? 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.
Long ago, people lived near caves. Some made art on the cave wall.
They put a hand on the wall. They blew paint around it. A hand shape was left.
We can see it now. It tells us people were here.
Many, many years ago, people lived near caves. Some of them made art on the cave walls.
They put a hand on the wall. Then they blew paint around it. When the hand came away, a hand shape was left.
We can still see those hand shapes today. They tell us people were here.
Many thousands of years ago, people lived near caves. Some of them decorated the cave walls with art.
An artist would press a hand flat against the wall and blow paint all around it. When the hand moved away, a clear hand shape was left behind.
Visitors can still see those shapes today. They show us that people were once in that very place.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 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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