1st grade fiction passage about trying again: 80 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Max has a new red bike. He wants to ride up the big hill by his house.
Max pushes the pedals. He gets halfway up, and then his legs get tired. He stops. "This hill is too big," he says.
His sister Dana rides up beside him. "Go slow," she says. "Take a rest when you need one."
Max tries again. He goes slow. He takes a rest. At last he gets to the top. Max smiles. "I did it!"
What color is Max's bike? in the text
How far up the hill does Max get the first time? in the text
Why does Max stop? in the text
What does Dana tell Max to do? in the text
Why does Max get to the top the second time? think about it
How does Max feel 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.
Max has a new red bike. He wants to ride up the big hill by his house.
Max pushes the pedals. He gets halfway up. His legs get tired. He stops. "This hill is too big," he says.
His sister Dana rides up next to him. "Go slow," she says. "Rest when you need to."
Max tries again. He goes slow. He rests. At last he gets to the top. Max smiles. "I did it!"
Max has a new red bike. He wants to ride up the big hill by his house.
Max pushes the pedals. He gets halfway up, and then his legs get tired. He stops. "This hill is too big," he says.
His sister Dana rides up beside him. "Go slow," she says. "Take a rest when you need one."
Max tries again. He goes slow. He takes a rest. At last he gets to the top. Max smiles. "I did it!"
Max has a shiny new red bike, and he wants to ride all the way up the big hill near his house.
Max pushes hard on the pedals. He makes it halfway up, but then his legs grow tired and he has to stop. "This hill is much too big," he says with a sigh.
His sister Dana rides up beside him. "Try going slowly," she says. "You can take a rest whenever you need one."
Max tries again. This time he goes slowly and he rests along the way. At last he reaches the top of the hill, and Max grins. "I did it!"
It was written for 1st grade. It has 80 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 six. 4 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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