Kindergarten nonfiction passage about camels in the desert: 51 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Camels live in the desert. Days there are hot, and rain is rare.
On its back, a camel has a hump. The hump is full of fat. When there is no food, the camel's body uses the fat.
A camel has long eyelashes too. Blowing sand stays out of its eyes.
Where do camels live? in the text
What is in the camel's hump? in the text
What do the long eyelashes keep out? in the text
Is the desert wet or dry? in the text
Why is the hump a help to a camel? 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 camel lives in the desert. It is hot and dry.
A camel has a hump. The hump has fat in it. The camel uses the fat for food.
A camel has long eyelashes. They keep sand out.
Camels live in the desert. Days there are hot, and rain is rare.
On its back, a camel has a hump. The hump is full of fat. When there is no food, the camel's body uses the fat.
A camel has long eyelashes too. Blowing sand stays out of its eyes.
A camel lives in the desert, a place that is very hot and very dry.
On its back, a camel has a big hump that is full of fat. When the camel cannot find anything to eat, its body can use that fat as food.
The camel also has long eyelashes. They help keep the blowing sand out of its eyes.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 51 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.4. 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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