Kindergarten nonfiction passage about moonlight comes from the sun: 61 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
The moon looks like it glows. But the moon has no light of its own.
The sun shines on the moon. The moon bounces the light back to us. It works like a mirror.
The sun can only light half of the moon at a time. That is why the moon can look like a bright smile or a full circle.
Does the moon have light of its own? in the text
What shines on the moon? in the text
What does the moon do with the light? in the text
What is the moon like? in the text
Why does the moon look like a bright smile sometimes? 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.
The moon looks like it glows. But it has no light of its own.
The sun shines on the moon. The moon bounces the light to us. It is like a mirror.
The sun lights half the moon. So the moon can look like a smile or a full circle.
The moon looks like it glows. But the moon has no light of its own.
The sun shines on the moon. The moon bounces the light back to us. It works like a mirror.
The sun can only light half of the moon at a time. That is why the moon can look like a bright smile or a full circle.
The moon looks as though it glows all by itself, but the moon has no light of its own.
The sun shines on the moon, and the moon bounces that light back toward us. In this way, the moon works like a mirror in the sky.
The sun can only light half of the moon at one time. That is why the moon sometimes looks like a bright smile and sometimes like a full, round circle.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 61 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.6. 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.
About 1 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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