Kindergarten nonfiction passage about tow truck drivers: 60 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A car stops on the road. It will not go. The driver calls for a tow truck.
The tow truck comes with its lights on. The helper hooks a strong chain to the car. Then the truck pulls the car up.
The tow truck takes the car to a shop. The car gets fixed. Now the car can go again.
What does the driver call for? in the text
What does the helper hook to the car? in the text
Where does the tow truck take the car? in the text
What happens at the shop? in the text
Why does the driver need a tow 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.
A car stops. It will not go. The driver calls a tow truck.
The truck comes. Its lights are on. The helper hooks a chain to the car. The truck pulls the car up.
The truck takes the car to a shop. The car gets fixed. It can go again.
A car stops on the road. It will not go. The driver calls for a tow truck.
The tow truck comes with its lights on. The helper hooks a strong chain to the car. Then the truck pulls the car up.
The tow truck takes the car to a shop. The car gets fixed. Now the car can go again.
Suddenly, a car stops on the road and refuses to go. The driver cannot fix it, so she calls for a tow truck.
Soon the tow truck arrives with its lights flashing. The helper hooks a strong chain to the car, and the truck lifts the front of the car off the road.
Then the tow truck carries the car away to a repair shop. There, a mechanic fixes it, and the car is ready to drive again.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 60 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.
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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