1st grade fiction passage about kindness and gifts: 92 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
It is Gran's birthday. Lily wants to give her a gift, but Lily has no money.
Lily thinks. She has paper, glue, and paint. She can make something. She paints a big hat out of paper. She glues on a red flower and a yellow bow.
Lily is not sure. Is the hat good enough? She puts it in a bag and goes to Gran's house.
Gran opens the bag. She puts on the paper hat. "It is the best hat I have ever had," she says. She wears it all day.
Whose birthday is it? in the text
Why can Lily not buy a gift? in the text
What does Lily use to make the hat? in the text
What two things does Lily glue on the hat? in the text
Why is Lily not sure about her hat? think about it
How does Gran feel about the hat? 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.
It is Gran's birthday. Lily wants to give her a gift. Lily has no money.
Lily thinks. She has paper, glue, and paint. She can make a gift. She paints a big hat out of paper. She glues on a red flower and a yellow bow.
Lily is not sure. Is the hat good? She puts it in a bag. She goes to Gran's house.
Gran opens the bag. She puts on the hat. "It is the best hat I have ever had," she says. She wears it all day.
It is Gran's birthday. Lily wants to give her a gift, but Lily has no money.
Lily thinks. She has paper, glue, and paint. She can make something. She paints a big hat out of paper. She glues on a red flower and a yellow bow.
Lily is not sure. Is the hat good enough? She puts it in a bag and goes to Gran's house.
Gran opens the bag. She puts on the paper hat. "It is the best hat I have ever had," she says. She wears it all day.
It is Gran's birthday, and Lily wants to give her a special gift. The trouble is that Lily has no money to buy anything.
Lily thinks hard. She has some paper, glue, and paint, so she can make something herself. She paints a big hat out of paper and glues on a red flower and a yellow bow.
Lily feels unsure. Is the hat good enough? She tucks it into a bag and walks to Gran's house.
Gran opens the bag and puts on the paper hat. "It is the best hat I have ever had," she says, and she wears it all day long.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.8. 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 six. 4 ask for something the text says directly and 2 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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