Kindergarten nonfiction passage about shapes that roll: 60 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A wheel is a circle, and a circle has no corners. It is round all the way.
A circle can roll smooth and fast, which is why a bike has round wheels.
A square has four corners. Would a square wheel roll? No! It would bump and bump.
A ball is round, and it rolls too. Round things roll best.
What shape is a wheel? in the text
How many corners does a circle have? in the text
How many corners does a square have? in the text
What else rolls, besides a wheel? in the text
Why would a square wheel bump? 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 wheel is a circle. It has no corners.
A circle rolls. A bike has round wheels.
A square has corners. It would bump.
A ball is round too. Round things roll best.
A wheel is a circle, and a circle has no corners. It is round all the way.
A circle can roll smooth and fast, which is why a bike has round wheels.
A square has four corners. Would a square wheel roll? No! It would bump and bump.
A ball is round, and it rolls too. Round things roll best.
A wheel is shaped like a circle, and a circle has no corners at all. It is smoothly round all the way around.
Because of that, a circle can roll quickly and gently. This is why a bike has round wheels.
A square has four sharp corners. If a wheel were a square, it would bump along the ground with every turn.
A ball is round, so it rolls as well. Round things roll best of all.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 60 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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.
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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