Kindergarten nonfiction passage about umbrella: 48 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
An umbrella has thin metal arms. Cloth is stretched over the arms.
Push the button. Pop! The arms spread out and the cloth opens wide. Rain hits the cloth and drips off.
When the rain stops, fold the arms. The umbrella is small. It fits in a bag.
What is under the cloth of an umbrella? in the text
What do you push to open it? in the text
What happens to rain that hits the cloth? in the text
Where can a folded umbrella fit? in the text
Why do you stay dry under an umbrella? 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.
An umbrella has thin arms. Cloth is on the arms.
Push the button. Pop! The cloth opens wide. Rain hits the cloth. It drips off.
Fold the arms when the rain stops. It fits in a bag.
An umbrella has thin metal arms. Cloth is stretched over the arms.
Push the button. Pop! The arms spread out and the cloth opens wide. Rain hits the cloth and drips off.
When the rain stops, fold the arms. The umbrella is small. It fits in a bag.
An umbrella is built from thin metal arms with a piece of cloth stretched tightly over them.
When you push the button, the umbrella pops open. The arms spread outward, and the cloth opens wide above your head. Rain lands on the cloth and drips off the edges.
When the rain stops, you can fold the arms back together. The umbrella becomes small enough to fit inside a bag.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 48 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.3. 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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