Kindergarten nonfiction passage about map symbols: 61 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Sam has a map of the park. The map has small pictures. A tree is a tree. A blue wave is a pond.
A small box shows the key. The key tells us what each picture on the map means.
Sam looks at the key. A red star means the slide. Sam finds the star. Then he runs to the slide.
What does Sam have? in the text
What does a blue wave mean? in the text
What does the key tell us? in the text
What does the red star mean? in the text
How did the key help Sam find the slide? 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.
Sam has a map of the park. The map has small pictures.
A blue wave is a pond. A tree is a tree.
A small box is the key. The key says what the pictures mean.
A red star is the slide. Sam sees the star. He runs to the slide.
Sam has a map of the park. The map has small pictures. A tree is a tree. A blue wave is a pond.
A small box shows the key. The key tells us what each picture on the map means.
Sam looks at the key. A red star means the slide. Sam finds the star. Then he runs to the slide.
Sam holds a map of the park, and the map is covered with small pictures. A tree is drawn as a tree, and a blue wave shows a pond.
In one corner there is a small box called the key. The key explains what every picture on the map means.
Sam reads the key and learns that a red star marks the slide. He searches the map until he finds the star, and then he runs across the park to the slide.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 61 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.
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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