1st grade fiction passage about a clock that turns time back: 81 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Grandpa has a gold clock. On Fridays, the clock runs backward. Tick, tick, tick, the hands go the wrong way.
One Friday, Ivy dropped her ice cream. Plop! It fell on the grass. Ivy was sad.
Grandpa held up the clock. The hands went back and back. Ivy was holding her cone again. The ice cream was not on the grass.
This time Ivy held it tight. She licked it up slowly. "Thank you, Grandpa," she said. The clock ticked forward.
What color is Grandpa's clock? in the text
What does the clock do on Fridays? in the text
What did Ivy drop? in the text
Where did the ice cream fall? in the text
Why was Ivy holding her cone again? think about it
Why did Ivy hold the cone tight the second time? 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.
Grandpa has a gold clock. On Fridays, it runs backward. The hands go the wrong way.
One Friday, Ivy dropped her ice cream. Plop! It fell on the grass. Ivy was sad.
Grandpa held up the clock. The hands went back. Ivy had her cone again. The ice cream was not on the grass.
This time Ivy held it tight. "Thank you, Grandpa," she said.
Grandpa has a gold clock. On Fridays, the clock runs backward. Tick, tick, tick, the hands go the wrong way.
One Friday, Ivy dropped her ice cream. Plop! It fell on the grass. Ivy was sad.
Grandpa held up the clock. The hands went back and back. Ivy was holding her cone again. The ice cream was not on the grass.
This time Ivy held it tight. She licked it up slowly. "Thank you, Grandpa," she said. The clock ticked forward.
Grandpa owns a gold clock with a strange habit. On Fridays, the clock runs backward, and its hands travel the wrong way around the dial.
One Friday afternoon, Ivy accidentally dropped her ice cream. Plop! It landed in the grass, and Ivy felt very sad.
Grandpa held up the clock. The hands spun back and back. Suddenly Ivy was holding her cone again, and the ice cream had never touched the grass.
This time Ivy gripped it tightly and licked it up slowly. "Thank you, Grandpa," she said, while the clock ticked forward.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 81 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 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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