Kindergarten nonfiction passage about road repair crews: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A big hole is in the road. Cars go bump. It is not safe. Who can fix it?
Workers from the town come. They put out orange cones. They fill the hole with warm, black tar. They press it flat.
Now the road is smooth. Our town pays for this work. Everyone in town can use the road.
What is in the road? in the text
Who comes to fix it? in the text
What do they put out? in the text
How is the road after the work? in the text
Why do the workers put out cones? 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 big hole is in the road. Cars bump. It is not safe. Who can fix it?
Town workers come. They put out cones. They fill the hole with black tar. They press it flat.
The road is smooth now. The town pays for this. All of us use the road.
A big hole is in the road. Cars go bump. It is not safe. Who can fix it?
Workers from the town come. They put out orange cones. They fill the hole with warm, black tar. They press it flat.
Now the road is smooth. Our town pays for this work. Everyone in town can use the road.
A large hole has opened up in the road, and the cars bump over it. It is not safe, so someone must repair it.
Workers from the town arrive and set out bright orange cones. They fill the hole with warm, black tar and press it down until it is flat.
Now the road is smooth again. Our town pays for this work, because everyone in town uses the road.
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.
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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