1st grade fiction passage about a lost sock: 96 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Ben had one red sock. The other sock was gone. He looked under his bed. He looked in the bath. No sock.
Then Ben went out to the sandbox. He saw a small hole. It was a tunnel! Out of the hole stuck a tail. Wag, wag, wag.
It was Dot, his pup. She backed out of the tunnel. A red sock was in her mouth. Dot had dug a hiding place for it.
Ben gave Dot a rope toy. Dot dropped the sock. Now Ben had two red socks, and Dot had a new toy.
What color was the sock that Ben lost? in the text
Where did Ben see a small hole? in the text
What stuck out of the hole? in the text
What did Ben give Dot? in the text
Why did Dot drop the sock? 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.
Ben had one red sock. The other was gone. He looked under his bed. No sock.
Ben went out to the sandbox. He saw a hole. It was a tunnel! A tail stuck out. Wag, wag, wag.
It was Dot, his pup. She came out. A red sock was in her mouth!
Ben gave Dot a rope toy. Dot let go of the sock. Ben had two socks. Dot had a toy.
Ben had one red sock. The other sock was gone. He looked under his bed. He looked in the bath. No sock.
Then Ben went out to the sandbox. He saw a small hole. It was a tunnel! Out of the hole stuck a tail. Wag, wag, wag.
It was Dot, his pup. She backed out of the tunnel. A red sock was in her mouth. Dot had dug a hiding place for it.
Ben gave Dot a rope toy. Dot dropped the sock. Now Ben had two red socks, and Dot had a new toy.
Ben had only one red sock, because the other one had vanished. He searched under his bed and inside the bathtub, but there was no sign of it anywhere.
Then Ben wandered out to the sandbox. He noticed a small hole in the sand. It was a tunnel! A furry tail was sticking out of it, wagging back and forth.
It was Dot, his playful pup. She backed slowly out of the tunnel with a red sock in her mouth. Dot had dug a secret hiding place for it.
Ben offered her a rope toy to chew. Dot dropped the sock right away. Now Ben had a pair of red socks, and Dot had a brand new toy.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 96 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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