Kindergarten nonfiction passage about hand shadow puppets: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
You can make a duck with your hand. You need a lamp and a plain wall.
Turn on the lamp. Hold up your hand in front of it. Open and close your fingers. Quack, quack!
Your hand blocks the light. Light cannot go through it. So a dark shape shows up on the wall. That shape is a shadow.
What do you need to make a shadow duck? in the text
What do you do with your fingers? in the text
What blocks the light? in the text
What shows up on the wall? in the text
What would happen if you turned the lamp off? 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.
You can make a duck with your hand. You need a lamp and a wall.
Turn on the lamp. Hold your hand up. Open and close your fingers. Quack!
Your hand blocks the light. The light cannot go through. A dark shape shows on the wall. That is a shadow.
You can make a duck with your hand. You need a lamp and a plain wall.
Turn on the lamp. Hold up your hand in front of it. Open and close your fingers. Quack, quack!
Your hand blocks the light. Light cannot go through it. So a dark shape shows up on the wall. That shape is a shadow.
You can make a duck using nothing but your hand, a lamp, and a plain wall.
Switch on the lamp and hold your hand up in front of it. Open and close your fingers like a beak, and make the duck quack, quack, quack!
Your hand blocks the light, because light cannot travel through it. As a result, a dark shape appears on the wall. That dark shape is called a shadow.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about below 1. 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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