Kindergarten nonfiction passage about voting to choose a name: 62 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A class has a new fish. It needs a name. Kids want Bubbles. Kids want Fin. How can we pick?
We vote. Each kid gets one vote. We put up a hand for the name we like. The teacher counts.
Fin has six hands. Bubbles has four hands. The fish is Fin! Some kids wanted Bubbles, but they cheer for Fin too.
What does the new fish need? in the text
How many votes does each kid get? in the text
Who counts the hands? in the text
Which name has more hands? in the text
Why does the fish get the name Fin? 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 class has a new fish. It needs a name. Kids like Bubbles. Kids like Fin. How do we pick?
We vote. Each kid gets one vote. We put up a hand. The teacher counts.
Fin has six hands. Bubbles has four. The fish is Fin! All kids cheer.
A class has a new fish. It needs a name. Kids want Bubbles. Kids want Fin. How can we pick?
We vote. Each kid gets one vote. We put up a hand for the name we like. The teacher counts.
Fin has six hands. Bubbles has four hands. The fish is Fin! Some kids wanted Bubbles, but they cheer for Fin too.
A class gets a new fish, and the fish needs a name. Some children suggest Bubbles, and others suggest Fin. How can the class decide?
They hold a vote. Every child gets exactly one vote, and each child raises a hand for the name they like best. The teacher counts the hands carefully.
Fin has six hands and Bubbles has four, so the fish is named Fin. Even the children who wanted Bubbles cheer for the winner.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 62 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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