Kindergarten · Extra practiceinformative paragraph
Our Fish Bubbles
Students read a short informative paragraph about Bubbles the classroom goldfish, answer four guided questions about its parts and facts, and contribute one new fact with teacher or family support.
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Sit next to your child and read the short paragraph about Bubbles aloud together, pointing to each word. Then say, "This paragraph tells us facts about Bubbles. What is one thing you learned?" A good answer names a real fact from the text, like "Bubbles is orange" or "Bubbles eats fish food." Ask your child to add one more fact sentence of their own, either by saying it out loud or by drawing a picture and labeling it with your help (for example, drawing a fish bowl and writing "water"). If your child struggles, reread one sentence at a time and ask, "What did that sentence tell us?" — finding facts one by one is easier than remembering the whole paragraph. Celebrate any fact they share, even a short one, because noticing facts is the first step to writing them.
Our Fish Bubbles
Bubbles is our class fish. Bubbles is orange and small. Bubbles has shiny fins and a tail. Bubbles eats fish food each day. We give Bubbles clean water. We love our pet Bubbles!
What this lesson checks
- Writing plan: Our paragraph about Bubbles needs more facts! Add 2 or 3 more sentences that tell true things about Bubbles. You can draw a picture and label it, or tell your teacher your sentences. Make your sentences sound like the ones in our paragraph.
- Writing plan: Now it is your turn! Think about a class pet hamster named Pip. Tell us about Pip with 2 or 3 short sentences. First, name your pet. Then tell what Pip looks like and what Pip eats. You can say your sentences to your teacher or draw a picture and add labels.
- Writing plan: Our paragraph tells facts about Bubbles. Let's add one MORE true fact about Bubbles that is NOT in the paragraph yet. Tell your teacher or draw and label a new sentence that starts with 'Bubbles'.
- Writing plan: A friend wrote this about their fish: 'My fish is nice.' That sentence does not tell us facts! Look at how our paragraph tells facts about Bubbles, like 'Bubbles is orange and small.' Help your friend fix the sentence. Say two short fact sentences about a fish. Tell what it looks like and what it eats. You can say it to your teacher or draw and label.