1st grade fiction passage about taking turns on a sled: 82 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Dev got a red sled. Lola had no sled. She stood at the top of the hill and watched.
Dev slid down fast. Whoosh! He wanted to go again and again. He did not want to share.
Then he saw Lola's cold nose. She was not smiling.
"Do you want a turn?" he asked.
"Yes, please!" said Lola.
They made a plan. One turn for Dev. One turn for Lola. They counted each time. Both of them went home with pink cheeks.
What color was Dev's sled? in the text
Why did Lola stand at the top of the hill? in the text
What did Dev ask Lola? in the text
How did they decide who went next? in the text
Why did Dev change his mind about sharing? 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.
Dev got a red sled. Lola had no sled. She stood at the top of the hill and watched.
Dev slid down fast. Whoosh! He wanted to go and go. He did not want to share.
Then he saw Lola's cold nose. She was not smiling.
"Do you want a turn?" he asked.
"Yes, please!" said Lola.
They made a plan. One turn for Dev. One turn for Lola. Both went home with pink cheeks.
Dev got a red sled. Lola had no sled. She stood at the top of the hill and watched.
Dev slid down fast. Whoosh! He wanted to go again and again. He did not want to share.
Then he saw Lola's cold nose. She was not smiling.
"Do you want a turn?" he asked.
"Yes, please!" said Lola.
They made a plan. One turn for Dev. One turn for Lola. They counted each time. Both of them went home with pink cheeks.
Dev received a shiny red sled, but his friend Lola did not have one. She stood at the top of the hill and watched him.
Dev zoomed down the slope. Whoosh! He wanted to go again and again, and he did not want to share his new sled.
Then he noticed Lola's cold nose and her unhappy face. She was not smiling at all.
"Would you like a turn?" he asked her.
"Yes, please!" said Lola.
Together they made a plan. Dev would take one turn, and then Lola would take one turn, and they counted each time. Both of them went home with pink cheeks.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 82 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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