Kindergarten nonfiction passage about telling how much time passes: 65 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mia has a sand timer. It has sand in a glass. The sand is at the top.
Mia turns it over. The sand falls down, down, down. It falls to the bottom.
When all the sand is down, the time is up.
Mia brushes her teeth while the sand falls. She stops when the sand is gone. Now she knows she brushed for long enough.
What does Mia have? in the text
Where is the sand at the start? in the text
What does Mia do while the sand falls? in the text
When is the time up? in the text
Why does Mia use the sand timer? 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.
Mia has a sand timer. The sand is at the top.
Mia turns it over. The sand falls down. When all the sand is down, the time is up.
Mia brushes her teeth. She stops when the sand is gone.
Mia has a sand timer. It has sand in a glass. The sand is at the top.
Mia turns it over. The sand falls down, down, down. It falls to the bottom.
When all the sand is down, the time is up.
Mia brushes her teeth while the sand falls. She stops when the sand is gone. Now she knows she brushed for long enough.
Mia owns a small sand timer. It is a glass with sand inside, and at the start all of the sand sits at the top.
Mia turns the glass over, and the sand slowly falls from the top to the bottom. When every bit of sand has fallen, the time is up.
Mia brushes her teeth while the sand is falling, and she stops only when the sand is gone. That way she knows she brushed for long enough.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 65 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.
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.
About 1 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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