1st grade fiction passage about keeping in touch with a friend who moved: 84 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Rosa's best friend Omar moved far away. Rosa missed him. The seat next to her at lunch was empty.
One day a small box came in the mail. Inside was a smooth gray pebble. A note said, "I found this by my new house. Love, Omar."
Rosa smiled. She found a pebble in her yard. It was white with a stripe. She put it in a box and mailed it to Omar.
Now they trade pebbles each month. Rosa keeps hers on a shelf.
Why was the lunch seat empty? in the text
What came in the mail? in the text
What did Rosa's pebble look like? in the text
Where does Rosa keep the pebbles she gets? in the text
Why do you think Rosa smiled when she got the pebble? 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.
Rosa's best friend Omar moved far away. Rosa missed him. The seat by her at lunch was empty.
One day a small box came in the mail. In it was a smooth gray pebble. A note said, "I found this by my new home. Love, Omar."
Rosa smiled. She found a pebble in her yard. It was white with a stripe. She put it in a box and sent it to Omar.
Now they trade pebbles each month. Rosa keeps hers on a shelf.
Rosa's best friend Omar moved far away. Rosa missed him. The seat next to her at lunch was empty.
One day a small box came in the mail. Inside was a smooth gray pebble. A note said, "I found this by my new house. Love, Omar."
Rosa smiled. She found a pebble in her yard. It was white with a stripe. She put it in a box and mailed it to Omar.
Now they trade pebbles each month. Rosa keeps hers on a shelf.
Rosa's best friend, Omar, moved very far away, and Rosa missed him terribly. At lunch, the seat next to hers stayed empty.
One afternoon, a small box arrived in the mail. Inside was a smooth gray pebble, along with a note that said, "I found this near my new house. Love, Omar."
Rosa smiled. She searched her yard until she found a pebble of her own. It was white with a stripe across the middle. She packed it in a box and mailed it to Omar.
Now the two friends trade pebbles every month, and Rosa keeps all of hers on a shelf.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 84 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. 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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