Kindergarten nonfiction passage about scissors: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Scissors have two blades, and the blades cross in the middle. Each blade has a handle with a hole in it.
Put your fingers in the holes and open the blades. Then close them. Snip! The paper is cut.
Always cut paper only. Walk with scissors point down, and give them to a friend by the handle.
How many blades do scissors have? in the text
Where do the blades cross? in the text
What sound do scissors make? in the text
What should you cut with scissors? in the text
Why do you hand scissors to a friend by the handle? 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.
Scissors have two blades. They cross. Each has a hole.
Put a finger in each hole. Open. Close. Snip! The paper is cut.
Cut paper only. Pass scissors by the handle.
Scissors have two blades, and the blades cross in the middle. Each blade has a handle with a hole in it.
Put your fingers in the holes and open the blades. Then close them. Snip! The paper is cut.
Always cut paper only. Walk with scissors point down, and give them to a friend by the handle.
Scissors are made of two sharp blades that cross each other in the middle. At the end of each blade is a handle with a hole for your fingers.
Slide your fingers into the holes and open the blades wide. Then close them together. Snip! The paper is cut in two.
Always cut only paper, and carry scissors with the points facing down. When you give them to a friend, pass them by the handle.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.7. 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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