Kindergarten nonfiction passage about triangle instrument: 52 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A triangle is a shiny metal bar bent into a shape. It hangs from a string.
Hit it with a little stick. Ting! The sound rings and rings.
Why does it ring? The metal shakes very fast. Now hold the triangle in your hand. The ringing stops. Your hand stops the shaking.
What is a triangle made of? in the text
How does it hang? in the text
What do you use to hit it? in the text
What happens when you hold it in your hand? in the text
Why does the sound stop when you hold it? 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 triangle is a bent metal bar. It hangs from a string.
Hit it with a stick. Ting! The sound rings and rings.
Why does it ring? The metal shakes fast. Now hold it in your hand. The ringing stops. Your hand stops the shaking.
A triangle is a shiny metal bar bent into a shape. It hangs from a string.
Hit it with a little stick. Ting! The sound rings and rings.
Why does it ring? The metal shakes very fast. Now hold the triangle in your hand. The ringing stops. Your hand stops the shaking.
A triangle is a shiny metal bar that has been bent into a three-sided shape, and it hangs from a loop of string.
Strike it with a little stick and you will hear a clear Ting! The sound keeps ringing for a long while.
It rings because the metal shakes back and forth very quickly. If you grab the triangle with your hand, the ringing stops right away, because your hand stops the metal from shaking.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 52 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.0. 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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