1st grade fiction passage about a mole and the moon: 93 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Moby the mole lived under a hill. It was dark in his home. He heard his friends say, "The moon is so bright!"
"I want to see it," said Moby. But his eyes were tiny. He could not see far.
Moby sat and felt sad. Then Winnie the owl came down. "I will tell you about it," she said. "The moon is round. It is as pale as milk. It makes the grass shine."
Moby smiled. He could see the moon in his mind. "Thank you," he said. "Now I know it, too."
Where did Moby the mole live? in the text
Why could Moby not see the moon? in the text
Who came down to help Moby? in the text
What did Winnie say the moon makes shine? in the text
How did Winnie help Moby know the moon? 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.
Moby the mole lived under a hill. It was dark in his home. His friends said, "The moon is so bright!"
"I want to see it," said Moby. But his eyes were tiny. He could not see far.
Moby felt sad. Then Winnie the owl came down. "I will tell you," she said. "The moon is round. It is pale like milk. It makes the grass shine."
Moby smiled. He could see the moon in his mind.
Moby the mole lived under a hill. It was dark in his home. He heard his friends say, "The moon is so bright!"
"I want to see it," said Moby. But his eyes were tiny. He could not see far.
Moby sat and felt sad. Then Winnie the owl came down. "I will tell you about it," she said. "The moon is round. It is as pale as milk. It makes the grass shine."
Moby smiled. He could see the moon in his mind. "Thank you," he said. "Now I know it, too."
Moby the mole lived in a snug burrow beneath a hill, where it was always dark. One evening he overheard his friends saying, "The moon is so bright tonight!"
"I would love to see it," said Moby. Unfortunately, his eyes were tiny, and he could not see very far at all.
Moby sat quietly and felt sad. Just then Winnie the owl swooped down beside him. "Let me describe it," she said. "The moon is perfectly round, and it is as pale as milk. Its glow makes every blade of grass shine."
Moby smiled. He could picture the moon clearly in his mind. "Thank you, Winnie," he said. "Now I know the moon, too."
It was written for 1st grade. It has 93 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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