Kindergarten nonfiction passage about healing a scrape: 78 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Oops! Jo fell on the grass. Her knee has a scrape. It stings a little.
Jo's mom helps her wash it. Then Jo puts on a bandage.
Soon her body makes a scab. A scab is like a bandage that your body makes. It is dry and a bit brown. It keeps dirt out.
Under the scab, new skin grows. Jo does not pick. She waits. One day the scab falls off. The skin is new and pink!
What hurt on Jo's knee? in the text
Who helps Jo wash it? in the text
What does a scab keep out? in the text
What grows under the scab? in the text
Why does Jo not pick at the scab? 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.
Oops! Jo fell. Her knee has a scrape. It stings.
Mom helps Jo wash it. Jo puts on a bandage.
Soon Jo's body makes a scab. It is dry and brown. It keeps dirt out.
New skin grows under it. The scab falls off. The skin is pink.
Oops! Jo fell on the grass. Her knee has a scrape. It stings a little.
Jo's mom helps her wash it. Then Jo puts on a bandage.
Soon her body makes a scab. A scab is like a bandage that your body makes. It is dry and a bit brown. It keeps dirt out.
Under the scab, new skin grows. Jo does not pick. She waits. One day the scab falls off. The skin is new and pink!
Oops! Jo tripped and fell on the grass, and now her knee has a scrape that stings a little.
Her mom helps her wash the scrape carefully, and then Jo puts on a bandage.
Before long, her body makes a scab. A scab is like a bandage that your own body makes. It is dry and a bit brown, and it keeps dirt out.
Underneath, new skin is growing. Jo does not pick at it. She waits patiently, and one day the scab falls off, and the new skin is pink!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 78 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.
About 1 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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