Kindergarten nonfiction passage about seahorse fathers: 50 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A seahorse is a fish with a head like a horse. It swims standing up.
Seahorse mom puts her eggs in a pouch on dad. The pouch is like a pocket on his belly.
Dad keeps the eggs safe. Then tiny seahorses pop out of the pouch. Pop, pop, pop!
What is a seahorse? in the text
How does a seahorse swim? in the text
Who has the pouch? in the text
What comes out of the pouch? in the text
Why does mom put her eggs in dad's pouch? 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.
A seahorse is a fish. Its head looks like a horse. It swims standing up.
Mom puts eggs in dad's pouch. The pouch is like a pocket.
Dad keeps the eggs safe. Then tiny seahorses pop out. Pop, pop, pop!
A seahorse is a fish with a head like a horse. It swims standing up.
Seahorse mom puts her eggs in a pouch on dad. The pouch is like a pocket on his belly.
Dad keeps the eggs safe. Then tiny seahorses pop out of the pouch. Pop, pop, pop!
A seahorse is a fish whose head looks a bit like the head of a horse. Instead of swimming flat, it swims standing straight up.
The seahorse mother places her eggs inside a pouch on the father. The pouch works like a pocket on his belly.
The father keeps the eggs safe inside. After a while, tiny seahorses pop out of the pouch, one after another!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 50 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.9. 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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