Kindergarten nonfiction passage about sheep shearers: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A sheep has thick wool. In spring, the wool is too hot. A shearer comes to help.
She sits the sheep down. She cuts off the wool with clippers. Buzz, buzz. The sheep is not hurt.
The sheep feels light and cool. The wool grows back. The wool can be made into yarn for socks.
What does a sheep have on its body? in the text
What does the shearer use to cut the wool? in the text
What can wool be made into? in the text
Does the wool grow back? in the text
Why does the sheep feel good after its haircut? 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 sheep has wool. The wool is thick. In spring, it is hot.
A shearer comes. She cuts the wool off. Buzz, buzz. The sheep is not hurt.
Now the sheep is cool. The wool grows back. Wool can be yarn for socks.
A sheep has thick wool. In spring, the wool is too hot. A shearer comes to help.
She sits the sheep down. She cuts off the wool with clippers. Buzz, buzz. The sheep is not hurt.
The sheep feels light and cool. The wool grows back. The wool can be made into yarn for socks.
A sheep is covered in thick wool. By spring, all that wool makes the sheep too warm, so a shearer visits the farm to help.
Gently, she sits the sheep down. Then she cuts off the wool with a pair of clippers. They buzz as they work, and the sheep is not hurt at all.
Afterward, the sheep feels light and cool. Best of all, the wool grows back. The wool that was cut off can be spun into yarn, and the yarn can be knitted into socks.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 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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