1st grade fiction passage about a goat eats a hat: 92 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Grandma had a big straw hat. It had paper flowers on top. She wore it in the garden each day.
One day, she took it off and put it on a bench. A goat came by. It saw the flowers. "Yum!" thought the goat.
Munch, munch, munch! The goat ate the paper flowers. It ate half of the hat, too.
Grandma came back. "My hat!" she said. The goat gave a loud "Maa!"
Grandma laughed. She put new flowers on the hat. This time, she hung it up high on a hook.
What was on top of Grandma's hat? in the text
Where did Grandma put her hat? in the text
What did the goat do? in the text
Where did Grandma hang her hat at the end? in the text
Why did Grandma hang the hat up high? 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.
Grandma had a big straw hat. It had paper flowers on top. She wore it in the garden.
One day, she put it on a bench. A goat came by. It saw the flowers. "Yum!" thought the goat.
Munch, munch! The goat ate the flowers. It ate half of the hat, too.
Grandma came back. "My hat!" she said. The goat said, "Maa!"
Grandma laughed. She put new flowers on the hat. She hung it up high.
Grandma had a big straw hat. It had paper flowers on top. She wore it in the garden each day.
One day, she took it off and put it on a bench. A goat came by. It saw the flowers. "Yum!" thought the goat.
Munch, munch, munch! The goat ate the paper flowers. It ate half of the hat, too.
Grandma came back. "My hat!" she said. The goat gave a loud "Maa!"
Grandma laughed. She put new flowers on the hat. This time, she hung it up high on a hook.
Grandma owned a big straw hat decorated with paper flowers on top. She wore it in her garden every single day.
One afternoon, she took it off and set it on a bench. A hungry goat wandered by and spotted the flowers. "Yum!" thought the goat.
Munch, munch, munch! The goat gobbled up the paper flowers, and it nibbled half of the hat, too.
When Grandma came back, she gasped, "My hat!" The goat answered with a loud "Maa!"
Grandma laughed and stuck new flowers on the hat. This time, she hung it high on a hook where no goat could reach.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 92 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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