1st grade fiction passage about a bus trip: 99 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Sam rode the bus with Dad. They were going to see Gran. Gran had sent a note. It said, "Get off at the stop with a blue door."
Sam sat by the window. He saw a red door. That was a barber shop. He saw a green door. That was a school.
The bus rolled on. Then Sam saw a blue door! It was on a bakery. A sweet smell drifted in.
"Stop here!" said Sam. He pulled the cord. Ding!
Gran stood by the blue door. She held a bag of warm buns. Sam had solved the clue.
Who was Sam going to see? in the text
What color door was the clue? in the text
What kind of shop had the blue door? in the text
What did Sam pull to make the bus stop? in the text
Why did Sam smell something sweet at the blue door? 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.
Sam rode a bus with Dad. They went to see Gran. Gran sent a note. It said, "Get off at the blue door."
Sam sat by the window. He saw a red door. It was a hair shop. He saw a green door. It was a school.
Then Sam saw a blue door! It was a bakery. It smelled sweet.
"Stop!" said Sam. He pulled the cord. Ding!
Gran was by the blue door. She had warm buns. Sam got the clue!
Sam rode the bus with Dad. They were going to see Gran. Gran had sent a note. It said, "Get off at the stop with a blue door."
Sam sat by the window. He saw a red door. That was a barber shop. He saw a green door. That was a school.
The bus rolled on. Then Sam saw a blue door! It was on a bakery. A sweet smell drifted in.
"Stop here!" said Sam. He pulled the cord. Ding!
Gran stood by the blue door. She held a bag of warm buns. Sam had solved the clue.
Sam was riding the bus with his dad to visit his grandmother. Gran had sent a note with a puzzling clue. It said, "Get off at the stop with a blue door."
Sam pressed his nose against the window and watched the street. He spotted a red door, which belonged to a barber shop. Next he spotted a green door, which belonged to a school.
As the bus rumbled along, Sam finally saw a blue door on a bakery. A sweet, warm smell drifted through the bus.
"Stop here!" Sam cried, and he pulled the cord. Ding!
Gran was waiting beside the blue door with a bag of warm buns. Sam had solved her clue.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 99 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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