1st grade fiction passage about a mix-up on the farm: 95 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Hen Dot sat on her nest. She sat and sat. She wanted an egg.
Then she felt something soft. Dot looked down. It was not an egg. It was a red sock with a hole in it!
"Cluck, cluck!" said Dot. "I did not lay a sock!"
Dot ran to the farmer. The farmer began to laugh. "That is my sock," he said. "The wind blew it off the line and into your nest."
The farmer took his sock. Dot sat back down. Soon she had a big, brown egg, and it was just right.
What did Dot want in her nest? in the text
What color was the sock? in the text
Who did Dot run to? in the text
How did the sock get into the nest? in the text
Why did the farmer laugh? 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.
Hen Dot sat on her nest. She sat and sat. She wanted an egg.
Then she felt a soft thing. It was not an egg. It was a red sock!
"Cluck!" said Dot. "I did not lay a sock!"
Dot ran to the farmer. He began to laugh. "That is my sock," he said. "The wind blew it into your nest."
He got his sock. Dot sat down. Soon she had a big egg.
Hen Dot sat on her nest. She sat and sat. She wanted an egg.
Then she felt something soft. Dot looked down. It was not an egg. It was a red sock with a hole in it!
"Cluck, cluck!" said Dot. "I did not lay a sock!"
Dot ran to the farmer. The farmer began to laugh. "That is my sock," he said. "The wind blew it off the line and into your nest."
The farmer took his sock. Dot sat back down. Soon she had a big, brown egg, and it was just right.
Hen Dot settled down on her nest. She sat for a very long time because she wanted to lay an egg.
Suddenly she felt something soft underneath her. When she looked down, it was not an egg at all. It was a red sock with a hole in the toe!
"Cluck, cluck!" cried Dot. "I certainly did not lay a sock!"
Dot hurried across the yard to the farmer. The farmer began to chuckle. "That is my sock," he explained. "The wind blew it off the clothesline and straight into your nest."
The farmer took back his sock. Dot sat down again, and before long she had a big, brown egg that was exactly right.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 95 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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