Kindergarten nonfiction passage about plumbers: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Drip, drip, drip. A pipe under the sink is leaking. A plumber comes to fix it.
First, the plumber turns a small handle. The handle shuts the water off. Now no more water comes out.
Then she tightens the pipe with a wrench. She turns the water back on. No drips! The sink is dry.
What is leaking in the story? in the text
What does the plumber turn first? in the text
What tool does she use to tighten the pipe? in the text
What happens when she turns the water back on? in the text
Why does the plumber shut the water off before she fixes the pipe? 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.
Drip, drip. A pipe under the sink leaks. A plumber comes.
First, she turns a small handle. The water shuts off.
Then she tightens the pipe with a wrench. She turns the water on. No drips! The sink is dry.
Drip, drip, drip. A pipe under the sink is leaking. A plumber comes to fix it.
First, the plumber turns a small handle. The handle shuts the water off. Now no more water comes out.
Then she tightens the pipe with a wrench. She turns the water back on. No drips! The sink is dry.
Drip, drip, drip. Water is leaking from a pipe under the kitchen sink, so a plumber comes to repair it.
Before anything else, the plumber turns a small handle that shuts off the water. With the water stopped, nothing can spray out while she works.
Next, she tightens the loose pipe with a wrench. Finally, she turns the water back on and checks the pipe carefully. There are no more drips, and the sink stays dry.
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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