Kindergarten nonfiction passage about homemade shakers: 49 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A shaker makes a sound. You can make one.
Put dry seeds in a small box. Close the lid. Now shake it! Shh, shh, shh!
The seeds hit the sides of the box. That makes the sound. Big seeds make a loud sound. Tiny seeds make a soft sound.
What do you put in the box? in the text
What do you do after you close the lid? in the text
What makes the sound? in the text
What kind of sound do tiny seeds make? in the text
Why do you close the lid? 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 shaker makes noise. You can make one.
Put dry seeds in a box. Shut the lid. Shake it! Shh, shh!
The seeds hit the box. That makes the noise. Big seeds are loud. Tiny seeds are soft.
A shaker makes a sound. You can make one.
Put dry seeds in a small box. Close the lid. Now shake it! Shh, shh, shh!
The seeds hit the sides of the box. That makes the sound. Big seeds make a loud sound. Tiny seeds make a soft sound.
A shaker is a simple instrument, and you can make one at home.
Place some dry seeds inside a small box and press the lid on tightly. Then give the box a good shake and listen to the sound it makes.
The seeds bump against the sides of the box, and that bumping creates the noise. Large seeds make a loud, rattling sound, while tiny seeds make a soft, whispery one.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 49 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.
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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