Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how rice grows: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Rice plants like water. Some farmers grow rice in a field with a little water on top.
The plants grow tall like grass. At the top are small grains of rice.
The farmer cuts the plants. The grains come off. Then the rice goes to a kitchen. A cook boils it in water until it is soft.
What do rice plants like? in the text
What do the plants look like? in the text
Where are the grains of rice on the plant? in the text
How does a cook make rice soft? in the text
Why does a rice field have water on top? 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.
Rice plants like water. Some farmers grow rice in a wet field.
The plants are tall like grass. At the top are grains of rice.
The farmer cuts the plants. The grains come off. A cook boils the rice in water. It gets soft.
Rice plants like water. Some farmers grow rice in a field with a little water on top.
The plants grow tall like grass. At the top are small grains of rice.
The farmer cuts the plants. The grains come off. Then the rice goes to a kitchen. A cook boils it in water until it is soft.
Rice plants like water. Some farmers grow rice in a wide field that has a little water standing on top.
The plants grow tall, much like grass, and small grains of rice form at the top of each one.
The farmer cuts the plants, and the grains come off. Then the rice travels to a kitchen, where a cook boils it in water until it is soft.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.6. 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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