1st grade fiction passage about a hedgehog and buttons: 95 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Hattie the hedgehog found a lost button. It was blue. She stuck it on her back spike. Then she found a red one. Then a green one.
Soon her back was full of buttons. They jingled and clicked. It was hard to walk.
"I need a plan," said Hattie. She took them all off. She made a pile of blue ones. She made a pile of red ones. She made a pile of green ones.
Now she could walk with ease. And the neat piles looked so nice that her friends came to see them.
What color was the first button Hattie found? in the text
Where did Hattie put the buttons at first? in the text
Why was it hard for Hattie to walk? in the text
How did Hattie sort the buttons? in the text
Why did Hattie make a plan? 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.
Hattie the hedgehog found a button. It was blue. She stuck it on her back. Then she found a red one. Then a green one.
Soon her back was full of buttons. They jingled. It was hard to walk.
"I need a plan," said Hattie. She took them all off. She made a pile of blue ones. She made a pile of red ones. She made a pile of green ones.
Now she could walk with ease.
Hattie the hedgehog found a lost button. It was blue. She stuck it on her back spike. Then she found a red one. Then a green one.
Soon her back was full of buttons. They jingled and clicked. It was hard to walk.
"I need a plan," said Hattie. She took them all off. She made a pile of blue ones. She made a pile of red ones. She made a pile of green ones.
Now she could walk with ease. And the neat piles looked so nice that her friends came to see them.
Hattie the hedgehog discovered a lost button on the path. It was blue, so she stuck it on one of her spikes. Soon she found a red button, and then a green one, and she added those as well.
Before long, her back was crowded with buttons. They jingled and clicked with every step, and it became very hard to walk.
"I need a plan," said Hattie thoughtfully. She took every button off and sorted them by color. She made a pile of blue ones, a pile of red ones, and a pile of green ones.
Now she could walk with ease. The neat piles looked so lovely that her friends came to admire them.
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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