Kindergarten nonfiction passage about hermit crabs: 48 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A hermit crab lives in a shell. It did not make the shell. It found it.
The crab grows. Soon the shell is too small. It feels tight.
So the crab looks for a new shell. It finds one that is bigger. It slides in. Now it fits!
Where does a hermit crab live? in the text
Did the crab make the shell? in the text
What happens when the crab grows? in the text
What does the crab look for? in the text
Why does the crab need a new shell? 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 hermit crab lives in a shell. It found the shell.
The crab grows. The shell is too small.
The crab finds a new shell. It is bigger. The crab slides in. It fits!
A hermit crab lives in a shell. It did not make the shell. It found it.
The crab grows. Soon the shell is too small. It feels tight.
So the crab looks for a new shell. It finds one that is bigger. It slides in. Now it fits!
A hermit crab lives inside an empty shell that it did not make. It simply found the shell and moved in.
As the crab grows bigger, its shell slowly becomes too small, and it begins to feel tight and crowded.
So the crab goes looking for a new shell that is larger. When it finds a good one, it slides right in. Now it fits perfectly!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 48 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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