Kindergarten nonfiction passage about stilt houses: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
In some places, houses stand on tall legs. The legs are made of wood. They are called stilts.
These houses are by a lake or a river. When the water gets high, it goes under the house. The people stay dry.
A boat can tie up below. A ladder goes up to the door.
What are the tall legs called? in the text
What are the legs made of? in the text
What happens when the water gets high? in the text
What goes up to the door? in the text
Why do people build houses on stilts by water? 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.
Some houses stand on tall legs. The legs are wood. They are called stilts.
These houses are by a lake. When the water gets high, it goes under the house. The people stay dry.
A boat ties up below. A ladder goes up to the door.
In some places, houses stand on tall legs. The legs are made of wood. They are called stilts.
These houses are by a lake or a river. When the water gets high, it goes under the house. The people stay dry.
A boat can tie up below. A ladder goes up to the door.
In some parts of the world, people build their houses on tall wooden legs called stilts. These houses are often near a lake or a river.
When the water rises, it simply flows underneath the house, so the family inside stays dry. A boat can be tied up below, and a ladder leads up to the front door.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.0. 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.
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