Kindergarten nonfiction passage about eyebrows: 76 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Touch the hair above your eyes. These are your eyebrows. Do you have two? Yes, you do!
Eyebrows help keep your eyes safe. When you play, you get sweat on your face. The sweat can run down. Your eyebrows can help stop it from going in your eyes.
Eyebrows also show how you feel. Up, up, up means you are surprised. Down and close means you are cross.
Try it now. Make your eyebrows go up!
Where are your eyebrows? in the text
What can run down your face when you play? in the text
What do eyebrows help keep safe? in the text
What does it mean when eyebrows go up? in the text
How can a friend tell you are cross without a word? 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.
Touch the hair on top of your eyes. Those are eyebrows.
Eyebrows help your eyes. Sweat can run down. The hair can stop it.
Eyebrows show a feeling. Up is a big "Oh!" Down is cross.
Go on, make them go up!
Touch the hair above your eyes. These are your eyebrows. Do you have two? Yes, you do!
Eyebrows help keep your eyes safe. When you play, you get sweat on your face. The sweat can run down. Your eyebrows can help stop it from going in your eyes.
Eyebrows also show how you feel. Up, up, up means you are surprised. Down and close means you are cross.
Try it now. Make your eyebrows go up!
Gently touch the hair that sits above your eyes. These are your eyebrows, and you have two of them.
Eyebrows help keep your eyes safe. When you play hard, sweat can drip down your forehead, and your eyebrows can help stop it from running into your eyes.
Eyebrows also show other people how you feel. When they rise high, you are surprised. When they come down and close together, you are cross.
Try it now, and make your eyebrows go up!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 76 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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