Kindergarten nonfiction passage about freezing juice into pops: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
I pour juice into a small cup. I stand a stick in the juice. Then I put the cup in the freezer.
The freezer is very cold. The cold makes the juice turn hard. It becomes an ice pop.
After a long sleep, I take it out. I lick it in the sun. Drip, drip! It starts to melt.
What do I pour into the cup? in the text
Where do I put the cup? in the text
What do I stand in the juice? in the text
What happens to the ice pop in the sun? in the text
Why does the juice turn hard? 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.
I pour juice in a cup. I stand a stick in it. I put the cup in the freezer.
The freezer is cold. The juice turns hard. It is an ice pop.
I lick it in the sun. Drip, drip! It melts.
I pour juice into a small cup. I stand a stick in the juice. Then I put the cup in the freezer.
The freezer is very cold. The cold makes the juice turn hard. It becomes an ice pop.
After a long sleep, I take it out. I lick it in the sun. Drip, drip! It starts to melt.
I pour some juice into a small cup and stand a stick in the middle. Then I carefully set the cup in the freezer.
The freezer is very cold, and the cold makes the juice turn hard. It has become an ice pop.
After a long wait, I take it out and lick it in the warm sun. Drip, drip! It starts to melt all over my hand.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 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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