Kindergarten nonfiction passage about saturn and its rings: 48 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Saturn is a big planet. It has rings all around it. The rings look like a hat brim.
The rings are not one piece. They are made of bits of ice and rock. Some bits are small. Some are big.
All the bits go around and around Saturn.
What does Saturn have all around it? in the text
What are the rings made of? in the text
Are the rings one piece? in the text
What do the bits do? in the text
Why does the writer say the rings look like a hat brim? 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.
Saturn is a big planet. It has rings. The rings go all the way around it.
The rings are not one piece. They are bits of ice and rock. Some bits are small. Some bits are big.
The bits go around Saturn.
Saturn is a big planet. It has rings all around it. The rings look like a hat brim.
The rings are not one piece. They are made of bits of ice and rock. Some bits are small. Some are big.
All the bits go around and around Saturn.
Saturn is a very large planet, and it has beautiful rings that circle all the way around it. From far away, the rings look a bit like the brim of a hat.
The rings are not one solid piece. They are made of many bits of ice and rock. Some of the bits are small, and some are quite big.
All of those bits travel around and around Saturn.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 48 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.0. 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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