Kindergarten nonfiction passage about washing clothes by hand: 48 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Before washing machines, clothes were washed by hand. Many families used a washboard.
A washboard has ridges. You wet a shirt and rub it on the ridges. The ridges help get the dirt out.
Then the clothes hang on a line. The wind and the sun dry them.
What did many families use to wash clothes? in the text
What does a washboard have? in the text
Where did the clothes hang to dry? in the text
What helped dry the clothes? in the text
Why did a person rub the shirt on the ridges? 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.
Long ago, there were no washing machines. People washed clothes by hand. Many used a washboard.
A washboard has ridges. Wet a shirt. Rub it on the ridges. The dirt comes out.
Then hang the clothes on a line. The wind and sun dry them.
Before washing machines, clothes were washed by hand. Many families used a washboard.
A washboard has ridges. You wet a shirt and rub it on the ridges. The ridges help get the dirt out.
Then the clothes hang on a line. The wind and the sun dry them.
Before there were washing machines, families washed their clothes by hand, and many of them used a washboard.
A washboard is a board covered with ridges. A person would wet a shirt and rub it back and forth across the ridges, and the ridges helped to scrub the dirt out.
Afterward, the clean clothes were hung on a line outside, where the wind and the sun slowly dried them.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 48 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.6. 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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