1st grade fiction passage about a lost sock with a tune: 71 words, six questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Nell lost a blue sock. She looked in the hall. She looked under the bed. No sock.
Then she heard a tune. Tweet-tweedle-tweet! It came from the laundry basket.
The blue sock was in the basket. It could whistle! Nell laughed. She put the sock on her foot.
Now Nell had a tune for every walk. She went to school with a whistling foot. The other socks were quiet.
What color was the lost sock? in the text
Where did Nell look for the sock? in the text
Where was the sock at last? in the text
What could the sock do? in the text
How did Nell find the sock? think about it
How did Nell feel about the whistling sock? 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.
Nell lost a blue sock. She looked in the hall. She looked under the bed. No sock.
Then she heard a tune. It came from the basket.
The sock was in the basket. It could whistle! Nell laughed. She put on the sock.
Now Nell had a tune for each walk. The other socks were quiet.
Nell lost a blue sock. She looked in the hall. She looked under the bed. No sock.
Then she heard a tune. Tweet-tweedle-tweet! It came from the laundry basket.
The blue sock was in the basket. It could whistle! Nell laughed. She put the sock on her foot.
Now Nell had a tune for every walk. She went to school with a whistling foot. The other socks were quiet.
Nell lost one of her blue socks. She searched in the hall and she searched under the bed, but the sock was nowhere to be found.
Then she heard a cheerful tune. Tweet-tweedle-tweet! The sound was coming from the laundry basket.
The missing sock was sitting in the basket, and it could whistle! Nell laughed out loud. She slipped the sock onto her foot.
From then on, Nell had a tune for every walk. She even went to school with a whistling foot, while all the other socks stayed quiet.
It was written for 1st grade. It has 71 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.0. 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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