Kindergarten nonfiction passage about sunflowers: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A sunflower is tall. It has big yellow petals like a face. It has a round brown middle.
The middle is full of seeds. Bees come to visit the flower. Birds come to eat the seeds.
People like sunflower seeds too. We can plant a seed in spring. Soon a new sunflower will grow tall.
What color are the petals of a sunflower? in the text
What is in the brown middle? in the text
Who comes to visit the flower? in the text
Who comes to eat the seeds? in the text
How can we get a new sunflower? 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 sunflower is tall. It has yellow petals. It has a brown middle.
The middle has seeds. Bees visit the flower. Birds eat the seeds.
We can plant a seed. A new sunflower will grow.
A sunflower is tall. It has big yellow petals like a face. It has a round brown middle.
The middle is full of seeds. Bees come to visit the flower. Birds come to eat the seeds.
People like sunflower seeds too. We can plant a seed in spring. Soon a new sunflower will grow tall.
A sunflower is a very tall plant. Its big yellow petals look like the rays of a bright face. In the center is a round, brown middle.
The middle is packed with seeds. Bees like to visit the flower, and hungry birds come to eat the seeds. People enjoy sunflower seeds too.
When spring comes, we can plant one of the seeds in the ground. Before long, a brand new sunflower will grow up tall.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.6. 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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