Kindergarten nonfiction passage about islands: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
An island is land. Water is all around it. You can stand on the sand and look. You see the sea on every side.
To get to an island, you need a boat. Some islands have a bridge. Some have a plane.
Some islands are small. A few trees grow there. Some islands are big. Many people live there.
What is all around an island? in the text
How can you get to an island? in the text
What grows on a small island? in the text
Who lives on a big island? in the text
Why can't you walk to an island with no bridge? 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 island is land. Water is all around it. You stand on the sand. You see the sea on every side.
To get to an island, you need a boat. Some have a bridge. Some have a plane.
Some islands are small. A few trees grow there. Some are big. Many people live there.
An island is land. Water is all around it. You can stand on the sand and look. You see the sea on every side.
To get to an island, you need a boat. Some islands have a bridge. Some have a plane.
Some islands are small. A few trees grow there. Some islands are big. Many people live there.
An island is a piece of land with water all around it. If you stand on the sand, you can see the sea on every side.
To reach an island, you usually need a boat. A few islands have a bridge, and some have a place for a plane to land.
Some islands are tiny, with only a few trees. Others are so big that many people live there.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.7. 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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