Kindergarten nonfiction passage about leaves in fall: 52 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
In summer, the leaves on many trees are green. Then the days get cooler. It is fall.
The leaves turn red, yellow, and orange. Then the leaves fall down to the ground. I jump in a pile of leaves!
The trees are bare in winter. In spring, new green leaves grow back.
What color are many leaves in summer? in the text
What colors do leaves turn in fall? in the text
What do the leaves do after they change color? in the text
What do I do with the pile of leaves? in the text
When do new leaves grow back? 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.
In summer, leaves are green. Then it is fall.
The leaves turn red, yellow, and orange. They fall to the ground. I jump in the leaves!
In winter, the trees are bare. In spring, new leaves grow.
In summer, the leaves on many trees are green. Then the days get cooler. It is fall.
The leaves turn red, yellow, and orange. Then the leaves fall down to the ground. I jump in a pile of leaves!
The trees are bare in winter. In spring, new green leaves grow back.
During the summer, the leaves on many trees are a deep, bright green. Then the days begin to get cooler, and fall arrives.
The leaves slowly turn beautiful shades of red, yellow, and orange. After a while, they drift down to the ground, and I love to jump into a big pile of them.
In winter, the trees stand bare. But when spring comes, fresh green leaves grow back again.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 52 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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