Kindergarten nonfiction passage about how bread is made: 56 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Wheat is a grass that grows in a big field. The top of the wheat holds little grains.
A farmer picks the wheat. A mill grinds the grains into soft flour. A baker mixes the flour with water. Then the baker bakes it in a hot oven.
Now we have bread. Bread comes from a plant!
Where does wheat grow? in the text
What does the mill make from the grains? in the text
What does the baker mix with the flour? in the text
Who picks the wheat? in the text
Why can we say bread comes from a plant? 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.
Wheat is a grass. It grows in a field. It has little grains.
A farmer picks the wheat. A mill makes the grains into flour. A baker mixes flour and water. Then the baker bakes it.
Now we have bread.
Wheat is a grass that grows in a big field. The top of the wheat holds little grains.
A farmer picks the wheat. A mill grinds the grains into soft flour. A baker mixes the flour with water. Then the baker bakes it in a hot oven.
Now we have bread. Bread comes from a plant!
Wheat is a tall kind of grass that grows in wide, open fields. At the top of each stalk are many little grains.
When the wheat is ready, a farmer picks it. Then a mill grinds the grains into soft, fine flour. A baker stirs the flour together with water and bakes it in a very hot oven.
At last, we have a warm loaf of bread. Our bread really does come from a plant!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 56 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.6. 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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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