Kindergarten nonfiction passage about blinking: 80 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Blink, blink! Did you blink just now? You blink a lot each day, and you do not even think about it.
When you blink, your eyelid wipes your eye. It spreads a thin wet layer over it. That keeps your eye from getting dry. It also wipes off tiny specks of dust.
A blink is very fast. Your eyes close and open in a flash.
Try to stare without a blink. It is hard! Soon your eyes want to blink.
What do you do with your eyelid? in the text
What does a blink spread over your eye? in the text
What does a blink wipe off? in the text
Is a blink fast or slow? in the text
Why is it hard to stare without a blink? 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.
Blink, blink! You blink a lot. You do not think about it.
Your eyelid wipes your eye. It spreads a thin wet layer. That keeps your eye from going dry. It wipes off dust.
A blink is fast. Try not to blink. It is hard!
Blink, blink! Did you blink just now? You blink a lot each day, and you do not even think about it.
When you blink, your eyelid wipes your eye. It spreads a thin wet layer over it. That keeps your eye from getting dry. It also wipes off tiny specks of dust.
A blink is very fast. Your eyes close and open in a flash.
Try to stare without a blink. It is hard! Soon your eyes want to blink.
Blink, blink! You probably blinked just now, and you blink many times each day without ever thinking about it.
Each time you blink, your eyelid sweeps across your eye and spreads a thin, wet layer over it. That keeps your eye from becoming dry, and it also wipes away tiny specks of dust.
A blink is extremely fast, because your eyes close and open again in a flash.
If you try to stare without blinking, you will find that it is very hard, because your eyes soon want to blink.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 80 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.3. 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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