Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how peanuts grow: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A peanut plant has little yellow flowers. When a flower fades, a thin stem bends down. It pushes into the dirt.
Under the dirt, the peanuts grow. Each one is inside a shell. A farmer pulls up the plant to find them.
Most nuts grow up on trees. Peanuts hide below the ground.
What color are the flowers of a peanut plant? in the text
Where do the peanuts grow? in the text
What is around each peanut? in the text
Who pulls up the plant? in the text
Why must a farmer pull up the plant to find peanuts? 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 peanut plant has yellow flowers. A flower fades. A stem bends down. It goes into the dirt.
The peanuts grow under the dirt. Each one has a shell. A farmer pulls up the plant.
Peanuts hide below the ground.
A peanut plant has little yellow flowers. When a flower fades, a thin stem bends down. It pushes into the dirt.
Under the dirt, the peanuts grow. Each one is inside a shell. A farmer pulls up the plant to find them.
Most nuts grow up on trees. Peanuts hide below the ground.
A peanut plant has little yellow flowers. When a flower fades, a thin stem bends down and pushes into the dirt.
Under the dirt, the peanuts grow, and each one is wrapped inside a shell. A farmer pulls up the whole plant to find them.
Many nuts grow up on trees, but peanuts stay hidden below the ground.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.7. 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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