1st grade fiction passage about trading buttons with a friend: 95 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Tess had a jar of buttons. It had red ones and blue ones. It had no green ones.
Her friend Hugo had a jar too. His jar had green buttons. It had no red ones.
"Let's swap," said Tess. "I will give you three red buttons."
"I will give you three green ones," said Hugo.
They poured the buttons on the rug. Click, click, click! Each jar got something new. Tess grinned. Hugo grinned too. It was a fair trade, and they were both happy with it. They put the lids back on their jars.
What did Tess have in her jar? in the text
What color did Hugo have that Tess did not? in the text
How many buttons did each friend give? in the text
Where did they pour the buttons? in the text
Why did Tess and Hugo both grin? 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.
Tess had a jar of buttons. It had red ones and blue ones. It had no green ones.
Hugo had a jar too. His had green ones. He had no red ones.
"Let's swap," said Tess. "I give you three red."
"I give you three green," said Hugo.
They poured the buttons on the rug. Click, click! Tess grinned. Hugo grinned.
Tess had a jar of buttons. It had red ones and blue ones. It had no green ones.
Her friend Hugo had a jar too. His jar had green buttons. It had no red ones.
"Let's swap," said Tess. "I will give you three red buttons."
"I will give you three green ones," said Hugo.
They poured the buttons on the rug. Click, click, click! Each jar got something new. Tess grinned. Hugo grinned too. It was a fair trade, and they were both happy with it. They put the lids back on their jars.
Tess owned a jar full of buttons. It held red ones and blue ones, but it did not hold a single green one.
Her friend Hugo also kept a jar of buttons. His jar was full of green buttons, but he had no red ones at all.
"Let's swap," suggested Tess. "I will give you three of my red buttons."
"And I will give you three of my green ones," replied Hugo.
They poured the buttons onto the rug, and they went click, click, click. Each jar now held something new. Tess grinned, and Hugo grinned right back.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 95 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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