1st grade fiction passage about walking at a grandparent's speed: 86 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mina liked to run. She ran to the gate. She ran to the pond.
Grandpa walked with a cane. He walked slow, slow, slow.
"Hurry up!" said Mina. Then she saw his face. Grandpa looked tired.
Mina stopped running. She took small steps next to him. Now she saw things she had missed. A snail was on a leaf. A bee sat on a clover.
"Grandpa, look!" said Mina. "Slow is good."
Grandpa laughed. "Yes, it is." They walked to the pond together, side by side.
What did Mina like to do? in the text
What did Grandpa use to walk? in the text
What was on the leaf? in the text
What did Mina do when she saw Grandpa looked tired? in the text
Why did Mina see more things when she walked slowly? 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.
Mina liked to run. She ran to the gate. She ran to the pond.
Grandpa had a cane. He walked slow, slow, slow.
"Hurry up!" said Mina. Then she saw his face. Grandpa was tired.
Mina stopped. She took small steps by him. Now she saw new things. A snail sat on a leaf. A bee sat on a clover.
"Look, Grandpa!" said Mina. "Slow is good."
Grandpa laughed. "Yes, it is."
Mina liked to run. She ran to the gate. She ran to the pond.
Grandpa walked with a cane. He walked slow, slow, slow.
"Hurry up!" said Mina. Then she saw his face. Grandpa looked tired.
Mina stopped running. She took small steps next to him. Now she saw things she had missed. A snail was on a leaf. A bee sat on a clover.
"Grandpa, look!" said Mina. "Slow is good."
Grandpa laughed. "Yes, it is." They walked to the pond together, side by side.
Mina loved to run. She raced to the gate, and she raced to the pond, and she never slowed down.
Her grandpa walked with a cane, and he moved slowly, one careful step at a time.
"Hurry up, Grandpa!" called Mina. But then she noticed his face, and she could tell that he looked tired.
Mina stopped running and took small steps beside him. Now she noticed things that she had missed before. A snail was creeping along a leaf, and a bee was resting on a clover.
"Grandpa, look!" said Mina. "Going slowly is good."
Grandpa laughed. "Yes, it certainly is."
It was written for 1st grade. It has 86 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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