Kindergarten nonfiction passage about roots we eat: 56 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A carrot has green leaves on top. The leaves are up in the air, but the orange part is under the dirt.
The orange part is a root. A root drinks water from the soil, and it holds the plant in place.
We pull up the carrot. We wash it well. Crunch! I eat a root.
What color are the leaves of a carrot? in the text
Where is the orange part? in the text
What does a root drink from the soil? in the text
What do we do before we eat the carrot? in the text
Why do we wash a carrot that came from the dirt? 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 carrot has green leaves. The leaves are on top. The orange part is under the dirt.
The orange part is a root. A root drinks water. It holds the plant still.
I pull up the carrot. I wash it. Crunch!
A carrot has green leaves on top. The leaves are up in the air, but the orange part is under the dirt.
The orange part is a root. A root drinks water from the soil, and it holds the plant in place.
We pull up the carrot. We wash it well. Crunch! I eat a root.
A carrot has green leaves on top, and they stay up in the air. The orange part grows under the dirt.
The orange part is a root. A root drinks water from the soil, and it also holds the whole plant in place.
We pull up the carrot and wash it well. Crunch! I am eating a root.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 56 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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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