1st grade fiction passage about paper folding hobby: 97 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Kit found a book of paper crafts. On the first page was a little boat.
Kit took a square of blue paper. She folded it in half. She folded the corners down to make a roof. Then she pulled the sides apart.
The boat looked flat and crooked. Kit sighed and pressed it with her thumb. Now it stood up straight.
She carried it to the sink and set it in a bowl of water. The boat did not sink. It floated and spun in a slow circle.
"Next, I will make a red one," said Kit.
What did Kit find? in the text
What color was Kit's first paper? in the text
Where did Kit set the boat? in the text
How did Kit fix the crooked boat? think about it
How do you think Kit felt at the end? 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 found a book of paper crafts. On the first page was a boat.
Kit took a square of blue paper. She folded it in half. She folded the corners down. She pulled the sides apart.
The boat was flat and crooked. Kit pressed it with her thumb. Now it stood up straight.
She set it in a bowl of water. It did not sink. It floated and spun.
"Next, I will make a red one," said Kit.
Kit found a book of paper crafts. On the first page was a little boat.
Kit took a square of blue paper. She folded it in half. She folded the corners down to make a roof. Then she pulled the sides apart.
The boat looked flat and crooked. Kit sighed and pressed it with her thumb. Now it stood up straight.
She carried it to the sink and set it in a bowl of water. The boat did not sink. It floated and spun in a slow circle.
"Next, I will make a red one," said Kit.
Kit discovered a book of paper crafts on the shelf, and the very first page showed a little boat.
She picked up a square of blue paper and folded it neatly in half. Next, she folded the corners down to make a roof and gently pulled the sides apart.
The boat looked flat and crooked. Kit sighed, then pressed it carefully with her thumb until it stood up straight.
She carried it to the sink and set it in a bowl of water. To her delight, the boat did not sink. It floated and spun in a slow circle.
"Next time, I will make a red one," said Kit.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 97 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.6. 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. 3 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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