Kindergarten nonfiction passage about day and night on earth: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
The Earth is round, and it spins slowly. The sun can only light one side at a time.
The side that faces the sun has day. The side that turns away from the sun has night.
So when you go to bed, kids on the other side of the Earth are awake. They are eating lunch in the sun!
What shape is the Earth? in the text
What does the Earth do slowly? in the text
Which side of the Earth has day? in the text
Which side has night? in the text
Why are some kids awake when you go to bed? 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.
The Earth is round. It spins slowly. The sun lights one side at a time.
The side that faces the sun has day. The side that turns away has night.
When you go to bed, kids on the other side are awake. They eat lunch in the sun!
The Earth is round, and it spins slowly. The sun can only light one side at a time.
The side that faces the sun has day. The side that turns away from the sun has night.
So when you go to bed, kids on the other side of the Earth are awake. They are eating lunch in the sun!
The Earth is a round planet, and it spins slowly all the time. Because of that, the sun can light only one side of it at a time.
The side that faces the sun has daytime. The side that has turned away from the sun has nighttime.
So when you climb into bed at night, children on the far side of the Earth are wide awake. They might be eating lunch in the bright sunshine!
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.4. 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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