Kindergarten nonfiction passage about mountains: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A tall mountain can have snow on top. The top is high in the sky. The air up there is cold.
Down low, it is warmer. Flowers can grow at the bottom. A goat can walk up the rocks.
If you hike up, you feel the air get cooler. Bring a warm coat.
What can be on top of a tall mountain? in the text
Is the air cold or warm up high? in the text
What can grow at the bottom? in the text
What walks up the rocks? in the text
Why should you bring a coat when you hike up? 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.
A tall mountain can have snow on top. The top is high in the sky. The air up there is cold.
Down low, it is warm. Flowers can grow at the bottom. A goat can walk up the rocks.
When you hike up, the air gets cool. Bring a warm coat.
A tall mountain can have snow on top. The top is high in the sky. The air up there is cold.
Down low, it is warmer. Flowers can grow at the bottom. A goat can walk up the rocks.
If you hike up, you feel the air get cooler. Bring a warm coat.
A tall mountain may have snow on its top, because the peak is high in the sky and the air up there is cold.
Lower down, the air is much warmer, so flowers can grow near the bottom. A mountain goat can climb up the steep rocks.
If you hike up a mountain, you will feel the air turn cooler with every step, so remember to pack a warm coat.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 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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