Kindergarten nonfiction passage about counting votes with tally marks: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Our class votes for a snack. We can pick apples or crackers.
Ms. Reed makes a mark for each vote. She draws one line. Then another line. A tally mark is a line.
Four lines stand up. The fifth line goes across them. That makes a group of five.
Apples get five marks. Crackers get three marks. Apples win!
What does the class vote for? in the text
What is a tally mark? in the text
How many marks make a group? in the text
Which snack gets five marks? in the text
Why do apples win? 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.
Our class votes for a snack. Apples or crackers.
Ms. Reed draws a line for each vote. A line is a tally mark.
Four lines stand up. The fifth line goes across. That is a group of five.
Apples get five. Crackers get three. Apples win!
Our class votes for a snack. We can pick apples or crackers.
Ms. Reed makes a mark for each vote. She draws one line. Then another line. A tally mark is a line.
Four lines stand up. The fifth line goes across them. That makes a group of five.
Apples get five marks. Crackers get three marks. Apples win!
Our class is voting for a snack, and we can choose between apples and crackers.
Ms. Reed keeps count by drawing a tally mark for every vote, which is just a short line. Four lines stand side by side, and the fifth line crosses over them. That makes one group of five.
When the votes are counted, apples have five marks and crackers have three marks. Apples win because they have more.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 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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