Kindergarten nonfiction passage about bird's-eye maps: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at your room from up high. Pretend you are a bird. You see the bed. You see the rug. You see the desk.
Now draw it. The bed is a long box. The rug is a circle. The desk is a small box.
That is a map of your room. A map shows things from above.
What do you pretend to be? in the text
What shape is the rug on the map? in the text
What is the bed drawn as? in the text
From where does a map show things? in the text
Why do you pretend to be a bird to draw a map? 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.
Look at your room from up high. Pretend you are a bird. You see the bed. You see the rug. You see the desk.
Now draw it. The bed is a long box. The rug is a circle. The desk is a small box.
That is a map. A map shows things from above.
Look at your room from up high. Pretend you are a bird. You see the bed. You see the rug. You see the desk.
Now draw it. The bed is a long box. The rug is a circle. The desk is a small box.
That is a map of your room. A map shows things from above.
Imagine looking down at your room from high in the air, just like a bird. You can see the bed, the rug and the desk from above.
Now try to draw what you see. The bed becomes a long box, the rug becomes a circle, and the desk becomes a small box.
You have made a map of your room. A map shows how things look when you view them from above.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 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.
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