Kindergarten nonfiction passage about mosaic art: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A mosaic is a picture made of tiny pieces. Each piece is a small tile.
An artist sets the tiles side by side. Some are blue. Some are green. Some are gold. From far away, you see a fish or a flower.
Look up close. You can see every little tile. Many tiny pieces make one big picture.
What is a mosaic? in the text
What is each piece called? in the text
What colors are the tiles? in the text
What might you see from far away? in the text
Why can you see each tile when you look up close? 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 mosaic is a picture. It is made of tiny pieces. Each piece is a tile.
An artist puts tiles side by side. Some are blue. Some are green. Some are gold. From far away, you see a fish or a flower.
Look close. You see each tile. Many tiny pieces make one big picture.
A mosaic is a picture made of tiny pieces. Each piece is a small tile.
An artist sets the tiles side by side. Some are blue. Some are green. Some are gold. From far away, you see a fish or a flower.
Look up close. You can see every little tile. Many tiny pieces make one big picture.
A mosaic is a picture that is made out of many tiny pieces. Each of those little pieces is called a tile.
An artist carefully sets the tiles down side by side. Some of the tiles are blue, some are green, and some are shiny gold. When you stand far away, the tiles seem to blend together into a fish or a flower.
If you step up close, though, you can see every single tile. Many tiny pieces come together to make one big picture.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 58 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.9. 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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