Kindergarten nonfiction passage about mushrooms and fungi: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A mushroom is not a plant. It is a fungus. It has no leaves and no flowers.
A mushroom cannot make food from the sun. It grows in damp, shady places, like the floor of a forest.
Some mushrooms are food from the store. Never eat a wild mushroom. Ask a grown-up first.
What is a mushroom? in the text
Does a mushroom have leaves? in the text
Where does a mushroom grow? in the text
What should you never eat? in the text
Why should you ask a grown-up first? 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 mushroom is not a plant. It is a fungus. It has no leaves.
It grows in damp, shady places. It cannot make food from the sun.
Never eat a wild mushroom. Ask a grown-up first.
A mushroom is not a plant. It is a fungus. It has no leaves and no flowers.
A mushroom cannot make food from the sun. It grows in damp, shady places, like the floor of a forest.
Some mushrooms are food from the store. Never eat a wild mushroom. Ask a grown-up first.
A mushroom may look like a little plant, but it is not one. It is a kind of living thing called a fungus, and it has no leaves or flowers.
Unlike a plant, a mushroom cannot make food from sunshine. It grows in damp, shady places, such as the floor of a forest.
Some mushrooms sold at the store are good to eat. But you should never eat a wild mushroom without asking a grown-up first.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.3. 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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