Kindergarten nonfiction passage about why mars looks red: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mars is a planet. It looks red in the night sky. People call it the red planet.
Why is it red? The dirt on Mars has rust in it. Rust is the red stuff you can see on an old bike.
Mars has rocks, hills, and red dust. Small robots drive on it and take pictures for us.
What color does Mars look in the night sky? in the text
What do people call Mars? in the text
Why is Mars red? in the text
What can you see on an old bike that is like the dirt on Mars? think about it
What do the small robots do on Mars? in the text
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.
Mars is a planet. It looks red at night. It is the red planet.
Why is it red? The dirt has rust in it. Rust is red. You can see rust on an old bike.
Mars has rocks, hills, and dust. Small robots drive there. They take pictures.
Mars is a planet. It looks red in the night sky. People call it the red planet.
Why is it red? The dirt on Mars has rust in it. Rust is the red stuff you can see on an old bike.
Mars has rocks, hills, and red dust. Small robots drive on it and take pictures for us.
Mars is a planet that looks red when we see it in the night sky. Because of its color, many people call it the red planet.
Why does Mars look so red? The dirt on Mars has rust in it. Rust is the same reddish stuff that you can sometimes see on an old bike.
Mars has rocks, hills, and plenty of red dust. Small robots drive across it and take pictures for us to see.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 58 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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