Kindergarten nonfiction passage about crayon resist painting: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Here is a trick. Draw a star on paper with a white crayon. You can hardly see it.
Now paint over the paper with blue paint. Swish, swish! The star shows up. It stays white!
A crayon is made of wax. Wax pushes water away. The wet paint slides off the wax. So the star is not blue.
What do you draw with first? in the text
What do you paint over the paper? in the text
What color is the star after you paint? in the text
What is a crayon made of? in the text
Why does the paint not stick to the star? 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.
Here is a trick. Draw a star on paper with a white crayon. It is hard to see.
Now paint the paper blue. Swish, swish! The star shows up. It stays white!
A crayon is made of wax. Wax pushes water away. The paint slides off the wax. The star is not blue.
Here is a trick. Draw a star on paper with a white crayon. You can hardly see it.
Now paint over the paper with blue paint. Swish, swish! The star shows up. It stays white!
A crayon is made of wax. Wax pushes water away. The wet paint slides off the wax. So the star is not blue.
Here is a clever trick you can try with art supplies. First, draw a star on a sheet of paper using a white crayon. At this point, the star is very difficult to see.
Next, paint over the whole sheet with blue paint, using big sweeping strokes. Swish, swish! The star suddenly appears, and it stays white!
A crayon is made of wax, and wax pushes water away. The wet paint slides off the wax, which is why the star does not turn blue.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 58 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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