Kindergarten nonfiction passage about meteors: 72 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look up on a dark night. You might see a line of light zip across the sky. It is called a shooting star.
But it is not a star at all. It is a tiny bit of rock from space. It is often as small as a grain of sand.
The rock zooms into our air. The air makes it hot, so it glows. Then it burns up. Zip! It is gone.
What do you see when a shooting star zips by? in the text
Is a shooting star a real star? in the text
How small is the rock? in the text
Why does the rock glow? think about it
What happens to the rock at the end? in the text
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.
Look up on a dark night. You may see a line of light zip by. It is a shooting star.
It is not a star. It is a tiny rock from space. It can be as small as a grain of sand.
The rock zooms into our air. The air makes it hot. It glows. Then it burns up. Zip! Gone.
Look up on a dark night. You might see a line of light zip across the sky. It is called a shooting star.
But it is not a star at all. It is a tiny bit of rock from space. It is often as small as a grain of sand.
The rock zooms into our air. The air makes it hot, so it glows. Then it burns up. Zip! It is gone.
If you look up into the sky on a dark night, you may see a bright line of light zip across it. People call this a shooting star.
However, it is not a star at all. It is really a tiny piece of rock from space, and it is often only as big as a grain of sand.
The rock zooms into the air around our Earth. The air makes the rock so hot that it glows, and then it burns up. Zip! In a moment, it is gone.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 72 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.
About 1 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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