Kindergarten nonfiction passage about a city of canals: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
In Venice, a town in Italy, many streets are water. The water streets are called canals.
People ride in boats. A boat can bring food to a shop. A boat can take a child to school.
There are small bridges too. People walk over the canals.
In Venice, a boat is a bus.
Where is Venice? in the text
What are the water streets called? in the text
What can a boat bring to a shop? in the text
How do people walk over a canal? in the text
Why does the story say a boat is a bus in Venice? 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.
In Venice, a town in Italy, many streets are water. The water streets are canals.
People ride in boats. A boat brings food. A boat takes a kid to school.
There are bridges too. We can walk on them.
In Venice, a boat is a bus.
In Venice, a town in Italy, many streets are water. The water streets are called canals.
People ride in boats. A boat can bring food to a shop. A boat can take a child to school.
There are small bridges too. People walk over the canals.
In Venice, a boat is a bus.
Venice is a town in Italy where many of the streets are made of water. These watery streets are called canals.
Instead of cars, people travel in boats. One boat may carry food to a shop, while another carries a child to school. Small bridges cross the canals so that people can also walk from place to place.
In Venice, a boat does the same job that a bus does in other towns.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 2.1. 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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