Kindergarten nonfiction passage about locksmiths: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mia loses her house key. She has only one. Her dad takes it to a locksmith.
The locksmith puts the key in a machine. A new blank key goes in too. The machine cuts the same bumps and dips into the new key.
Now there are two keys. Mia keeps one safe. Her dad keeps one too.
Who takes the key to the locksmith? in the text
What goes in the machine with the key? in the text
What does the machine cut into the new key? in the text
How many keys are there at the end? in the text
Why is it good to have two keys? 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.
Mia has one house key. She loses it. Her dad takes the key to a locksmith.
The locksmith puts the key in a machine. A new key goes in too. The machine cuts bumps in the new key.
Now there are two keys. Mia keeps one. Her dad keeps one.
Mia loses her house key. She has only one. Her dad takes it to a locksmith.
The locksmith puts the key in a machine. A new blank key goes in too. The machine cuts the same bumps and dips into the new key.
Now there are two keys. Mia keeps one safe. Her dad keeps one too.
Mia loses her house key, and it is the only one her family has. Her dad carries it to a locksmith, a person who makes keys and repairs locks.
The locksmith clamps the key into a machine beside a new, blank key. As the machine runs, it cuts the very same bumps and dips into the blank key.
Now the family has two keys that work. Mia keeps one in a safe place, and her dad keeps the other one for himself.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.1. 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.
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