1st grade fiction passage about moving to a new home: 93 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Today Cora's family moved. The new house was big and empty. Her voice made an echo.
"I want my old room," said Cora.
Dad had stacked the boxes in the hall. Cora looked at the biggest box. She had an idea.
She pushed three boxes into a square. She put a quilt on top. She crawled inside with her flashlight.
Her little brother crawled in too. "This is our new house," he said.
Cora smiled. It felt cozy now. The house did not seem so empty, and she began to feel at home.
Why did Cora's family have boxes? in the text
What did Cora hear when she spoke in the new house? in the text
What did Cora put on top of the boxes? in the text
Who crawled in with Cora? in the text
Why did the new house feel better 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.
Today Cora's family moved. The new house was big and empty. Her voice made an echo.
"I want my old room," said Cora.
Dad put the boxes in the hall. Cora looked at the big boxes. She had an idea.
She pushed three boxes in a square. She put a quilt on top. She crawled in with her flashlight.
Her little brother crawled in too. "This is our new house," he said.
Cora smiled. It felt cozy now.
Today Cora's family moved. The new house was big and empty. Her voice made an echo.
"I want my old room," said Cora.
Dad had stacked the boxes in the hall. Cora looked at the biggest box. She had an idea.
She pushed three boxes into a square. She put a quilt on top. She crawled inside with her flashlight.
Her little brother crawled in too. "This is our new house," he said.
Cora smiled. It felt cozy now. The house did not seem so empty, and she began to feel at home.
Today was the day that Cora's family moved. The new house was big and completely empty, and when Cora spoke, her voice made an echo.
"I want my old room back," Cora said sadly.
Dad had stacked all the boxes in the hallway. Cora studied the biggest ones, and suddenly she had an idea.
She pushed three large boxes into the shape of a square and spread a quilt across the top. Then she crawled inside with her flashlight.
Her little brother crawled in after her. "This is our new house," he announced.
Cora smiled, because the new place finally felt cozy.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 93 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.4. 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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