Kindergarten nonfiction passage about sailboats: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
A sailboat has a tall cloth sail. The sail is on a tall pole called a mast.
The wind fills the sail. Whoosh! The wind pushes, and the boat glides on the water.
On a calm day, the boat just sits. It needs wind to go. A sailboat has no gas. It uses the wind.
What is a mast? in the text
What fills the sail? in the text
Where does the boat glide? in the text
What does a sailboat use instead of gas? in the text
Why does the boat just sit on a calm day? 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 sailboat has a tall sail. The sail is on a pole. The pole is a mast.
Wind fills the sail. Whoosh! The boat glides on the water.
On a calm day, the boat sits. It needs wind. It does not use gas.
A sailboat has a tall cloth sail. The sail is on a tall pole called a mast.
The wind fills the sail. Whoosh! The wind pushes, and the boat glides on the water.
On a calm day, the boat just sits. It needs wind to go. A sailboat has no gas. It uses the wind.
A sailboat has a tall sail made of cloth. The sail is held up by a tall pole called a mast.
When the wind fills the sail, it pushes against the cloth with a whoosh, and the boat glides smoothly across the water.
On a calm day, the sailboat simply sits where it is. It cannot go anywhere without wind. A sailboat does not burn any gas. It travels by using the wind.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 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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