Kindergarten nonfiction passage about goosebumps: 66 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Brr! The wind is cold. Look at my arm. It has little bumps!
These bumps are goosebumps. Tiny hairs on my skin stand up. Each hair has a small bump at the bottom.
Goosebumps can come when I am cold. They can come when I am scared. They can come when a song is so good.
Then I put on a coat. The bumps go away.
What are the little bumps called? in the text
What stands up on my skin? in the text
Name one time goosebumps can come? in the text
What do I put on at the end? in the text
Why did the bumps go away after the coat? 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.
Brr! It is cold. Look at my arm. It has bumps!
These are goosebumps. Tiny hairs on my skin stand up.
I get goosebumps when I am cold. I get them when I am scared.
I put on a coat. The bumps go away.
Brr! The wind is cold. Look at my arm. It has little bumps!
These bumps are goosebumps. Tiny hairs on my skin stand up. Each hair has a small bump at the bottom.
Goosebumps can come when I am cold. They can come when I am scared. They can come when a song is so good.
Then I put on a coat. The bumps go away.
Brr! The wind outside is very cold. When I look at my arm, I see little bumps all over it!
These bumps are called goosebumps. Tiny hairs on my skin stand straight up, and each hair has a small bump at the bottom.
Goosebumps can appear when I am cold. They can also appear when I am scared, or when I hear a song that is wonderful.
Then I put on my warm coat, and the bumps slowly go away.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 66 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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