Kindergarten nonfiction passage about orchard pickers: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
In fall, the apples are ready. Pickers come to the orchard. They put up tall ladders.
A picker wears a bag on her front. She holds an apple and gives it a twist. It comes right off.
She lays the apple in the bag. She does not drop it. A dropped apple gets a bruise.
When are the apples ready? in the text
What do the pickers put up? in the text
Where does the picker put each apple? in the text
How does the picker take an apple off the branch? in the text
Why does the picker lay the apple in the bag? 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.
In fall, apples are ready. Pickers come. They put up ladders.
A picker has a bag. She twists an apple. It comes off.
She lays it in the bag. She does not drop it. A drop makes a bruise.
In fall, the apples are ready. Pickers come to the orchard. They put up tall ladders.
A picker wears a bag on her front. She holds an apple and gives it a twist. It comes right off.
She lays the apple in the bag. She does not drop it. A dropped apple gets a bruise.
When fall arrives, the apples in the orchard are finally ready, and pickers come to gather them. They set up tall ladders against the trees.
Each picker wears a bag on her front. She holds an apple in her hand and gives it a gentle twist, and it comes right off the branch.
Carefully, she lays the apple in her bag instead of dropping it. A dropped apple would get a bruise, and a bruised apple does not stay fresh.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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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