1st grade fiction passage about a small door inside a pumpkin: 83 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Wes was in the pumpkin patch. He saw one pumpkin with a tiny door. The door was round and red.
Wes knocked. Tap, tap! A small voice said, "Come in."
Inside was a little room. A mouse sat by a soup pot. "I am the pumpkin cook," said the mouse. "My soup is too hot to eat."
Wes blew on the soup. Whoo, whoo! The soup got cool. The mouse gave Wes a taste. It was sweet. Wes said, "I will come back."
What did Wes see in the pumpkin patch? in the text
What color was the door? in the text
Who lived inside the pumpkin? in the text
What was the problem with the soup? in the text
How did Wes fix the problem? think about it
Did Wes like the soup? 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.
Wes was in the pumpkin patch. He saw a pumpkin with a tiny door. The door was round and red.
Wes knocked. Tap, tap! A small voice said, "Come in."
Inside was a little room. A mouse sat by a soup pot. "I am the cook," said the mouse. "My soup is too hot."
Wes blew on the soup. Whoo! The soup got cool. The mouse gave Wes a taste. It was sweet.
Wes was in the pumpkin patch. He saw one pumpkin with a tiny door. The door was round and red.
Wes knocked. Tap, tap! A small voice said, "Come in."
Inside was a little room. A mouse sat by a soup pot. "I am the pumpkin cook," said the mouse. "My soup is too hot to eat."
Wes blew on the soup. Whoo, whoo! The soup got cool. The mouse gave Wes a taste. It was sweet. Wes said, "I will come back."
Wes was wandering through the pumpkin patch when he noticed one pumpkin with a tiny door. The door was round and bright red.
Wes knocked politely. Tap, tap! A small voice answered, "Come in."
Inside was a cozy little room. A mouse sat beside a soup pot. "I am the pumpkin cook," said the mouse. "Unfortunately, my soup is too hot to eat."
Wes leaned over and blew on the soup. Whoo, whoo! The soup soon cooled down. The mouse let Wes taste it, and it was sweet. Wes promised that he would come back.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 83 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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