Kindergarten nonfiction passage about plant roots: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Look at a tree. You can see the trunk and the leaves. But some parts are under the ground.
Roots grow in the dirt. Roots hold the plant so it can stand. Roots also drink water, like a straw.
The water goes up into the plant. Roots help the plant live and grow.
Where do roots grow? in the text
What do roots hold? in the text
What do roots drink? in the text
What are roots like? in the text
Why do you think a plant needs roots? 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 tree has a trunk and leaves. Some parts are under the ground.
Roots grow in the dirt. Roots hold the plant up. Roots drink water. They are like a straw.
The water goes up into the plant.
Look at a tree. You can see the trunk and the leaves. But some parts are under the ground.
Roots grow in the dirt. Roots hold the plant so it can stand. Roots also drink water, like a straw.
The water goes up into the plant. Roots help the plant live and grow.
Look closely at a tree. You can see the trunk, the branches, and all the leaves. But some of the tree is hidden under the ground.
Those hidden parts are the roots. They spread out through the dirt and hold the plant firmly so that it can stand tall. Roots also drink water from the soil, just like a straw does.
The water travels up into the rest of the plant. Without roots, a plant could not live and grow.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 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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