Kindergarten nonfiction passage about making butter from cream: 51 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Cream comes from milk. Pour some cream in a jar. Put the lid on tight.
Shake, shake, shake! At first the cream looks like fluff. Keep shaking. Soon you see yellow lumps. Wet milk sloshes around them.
The lumps are butter! Pour off the milk. Spread the butter on warm bread.
Where does cream come from? in the text
What do you put in the jar? in the text
What color are the lumps? in the text
What do you spread the butter on? in the text
Why do you put the lid on tight before you shake? 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.
Cream comes from milk. Put cream in a jar. Put the lid on tight.
Shake, shake, shake! Soon you see yellow lumps. Milk sloshes around them.
The lumps are butter! Spread it on warm bread.
Cream comes from milk. Pour some cream in a jar. Put the lid on tight.
Shake, shake, shake! At first the cream looks like fluff. Keep shaking. Soon you see yellow lumps. Wet milk sloshes around them.
The lumps are butter! Pour off the milk. Spread the butter on warm bread.
Cream comes from milk. Pour some cream into a jar and put the lid on tight.
Shake, shake, shake! At first the cream looks like fluff. If you keep shaking, you will soon see yellow lumps, and thin milk sloshes around them.
The lumps are butter! Pour off the milk and spread the butter on warm bread.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 51 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.
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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