Rain
Look up. The sky is gray.
Drip, drip, drip. It is rain!
Rain falls on the grass. Rain falls on the hill. Plants drink the rain. Frogs hop in the rain.
When the rain stops, look for a rainbow.
Rain
Kindergarten nonfiction passage about weather: 39 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Questions
What color is the sky in the rain? in the text
What sound does the rain make? in the text
Who drinks the rain? in the text
Which animal hops in the rain? in the text
Why do plants need rain? think about it
Words to know
- rain
- drops of water that fall from the sky
- drip
- to fall in small drops
- hill
- ground that is higher than the ground around it
- rainbow
- a bow of many colors you can see in the sky after rain
How to use it
- Press Read it big (or B) to put the text on the projector, or Full screen (F) to fill the whole screen.
- Ask the questions one at a time and use Show answer when the class has decided. A shows or hides every answer.
- Print student copy for the class, or Print with answers for yourself.
Ideas for class
- Before reading, put rain, drip, hill and rainbow on the board with their meanings from the Words to know section and have students predict what the text will be about.
- Read it aloud once while students follow along, then have them reread it alone or with a partner. At a calm 100 words a minute it takes under a minute to read aloud.
- Use the Read it big button (or B) to put the text on the projector, and Show answer on one question at a time so the class commits to an answer first.
- Question 5 asks the reader to infer. Ask students to point to the words in the passage that led them to their answer.
- Ask students to write one question the passage did not answer, then look for the answer in a book or on a classroom screen.
- Print the student copy for independent work and keep the answer-key copy for yourself.
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Questions
What reading level is "Rain"?
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 39 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.
What do the questions ask?
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.
How long does it take to read?
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.
Can I print it?
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.
Is this passage from a published book?
No. It was written for Peabody Teach, so there is no book to buy and no login to read it.
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