Kindergarten nonfiction passage about trash and recycling pickup: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Every week, a big truck comes down our street. It is the garbage truck. It comes on Tuesday.
We put our bins by the curb. The workers lift each bin. Crash! The trash falls into the truck.
Some bins are for cans and paper. Those go to be made into new things. A clean town is good for everyone.
Which day does the garbage truck come? in the text
Where do we put our bins? in the text
What goes in some bins? in the text
What happens to the cans and paper? in the text
Why do we put bins out for the truck? 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.
Each week, a big truck comes down our street. It is the garbage truck. It comes on Tuesday.
We put our bins by the curb. Workers lift each bin. Crash! The trash falls in the truck.
Some bins have cans and paper. They are made into new things. A clean town is good for all.
Every week, a big truck comes down our street. It is the garbage truck. It comes on Tuesday.
We put our bins by the curb. The workers lift each bin. Crash! The trash falls into the truck.
Some bins are for cans and paper. Those go to be made into new things. A clean town is good for everyone.
Every week, a big garbage truck rumbles down our street. It always comes on Tuesday.
We set our bins beside the curb the night before. The workers lift each bin, and with a loud crash the trash tumbles into the truck.
Some bins are meant for cans and paper. Those are taken away and turned into brand new things. A clean town is good for everyone who lives there.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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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