1st grade fiction passage about a dot of light: 98 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Kit was in bed. The room was dim. Then she saw a bright dot on the wall. It slid left. It slid right. It did a little dance.
Kit sat up. Was it a bug? Was it a star? She touched the dot, and it was just light.
She looked at the window. A string of shiny shells hung there. They were a wind chime. A breeze made them swing, and the light of a streetlamp bounced off them onto the wall.
Kit giggled. The dot was a shell's shine. She watched it dance until she fell asleep.
Where did Kit see the bright dot? in the text
What did the dot do? in the text
What hung in the window? in the text
What made the shells swing? in the text
Why did the dot move on the wall? 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.
Kit was in bed. The room was dim. Then she saw a bright dot on the wall. It slid left. It slid right. It did a little dance.
Kit sat up. Was it a bug? She touched the dot. It was just light.
She looked at the window. Shiny shells hung there. They were a wind chime. A breeze made them swing. The light from a street lamp bounced off them onto the wall.
Kit giggled. She watched the dot dance until she fell asleep.
Kit was in bed. The room was dim. Then she saw a bright dot on the wall. It slid left. It slid right. It did a little dance.
Kit sat up. Was it a bug? Was it a star? She touched the dot, and it was just light.
She looked at the window. A string of shiny shells hung there. They were a wind chime. A breeze made them swing, and the light of a streetlamp bounced off them onto the wall.
Kit giggled. The dot was a shell's shine. She watched it dance until she fell asleep.
Kit lay in bed in the dim bedroom. Suddenly she noticed a bright dot of light on the wall. It slid to the left, then to the right, as if it were doing a little dance.
Kit sat up and wondered whether it was a bug or a tiny star. When she reached out and touched the dot, she found that it was only light.
She turned toward the window, where a string of shiny shells was hanging. They were a wind chime. A soft breeze made them swing, and the glow of a street lamp bounced off them and onto the wall.
Kit giggled. She watched the dot dance until she drifted off to sleep.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 98 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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