Kindergarten nonfiction passage about taste buds: 68 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Stick out your tongue. Look in the mirror. Do you see tiny bumps? They are small and pink.
The bumps help you taste. A lemon tastes sour. Honey tastes sweet. Salty chips taste salty.
Your tongue tells your brain what you eat. Your brain says, "Yum!" or "Yuck!"
Your tongue also helps you talk. It helps you move food in your mouth. Wow, a tongue does a lot!
What do you see on your tongue in the mirror? in the text
What do the bumps help you do? in the text
How does a lemon taste? in the text
What else does your tongue help you do? in the text
What would you taste if you ate a spoon of honey? 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.
Stick out your tongue. Look in a mirror. See the bumps? They are small.
The bumps help you taste. A lemon is sour. Honey is sweet. Chips are salty.
Your tongue tells your brain. Your brain says, "Yum!"
Your tongue helps you talk too.
Stick out your tongue. Look in the mirror. Do you see tiny bumps? They are small and pink.
The bumps help you taste. A lemon tastes sour. Honey tastes sweet. Salty chips taste salty.
Your tongue tells your brain what you eat. Your brain says, "Yum!" or "Yuck!"
Your tongue also helps you talk. It helps you move food in your mouth. Wow, a tongue does a lot!
If you stick out your tongue and look in the mirror, you will notice tiny pink bumps on it.
These bumps help you taste your food. A lemon tastes sour, honey tastes sweet, and salty chips taste salty.
Your tongue sends a message to your brain about what you are eating. Then your brain decides whether it says, "Yum!" or "Yuck!"
Your tongue also helps you talk, and it helps you move food around in your mouth. A tongue does a great deal!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 68 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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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