Kindergarten reading passages with questions
5 original Kindergarten passages with five questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print them or read them big.
5 passages of 36 to 48 words. Very short texts for children who are just learning to read, or who are listening to you read: a story about a cat, and true texts about rain, the five senses, day and night and the people who help at school. Each has a single idea and a picture you can make in your head.
Passages
- My Cat Mimfiction, animals, 38 words
- Rainnonfiction, weather, 39 words
- My Five Sensesnonfiction, the body, 36 words
- Day and Nightnonfiction, the Earth and sun, 48 words
- Who Helps at School?nonfiction, community helpers, 47 words
How to use them in Kindergarten
Read the passage aloud first with a finger under each word, then read it together. The questions are meant to be asked out loud and answered out loud: no writing is needed. The last question asks the child to think past the words on the page, which is the first step toward inference.
What the text looks like
One idea, sentences of three to six words, words a child can sound out or already knows by sight.
Every passage in the set: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8. Or see the whole list, check any text with the readability checker, or time a read with the fluency timer.
Questions
What does Kindergarten reading level mean here?
Each passage here is checked with the Flesch-Kincaid formula, and for this grade the result has to be no higher than 2.5. It is a formula, so use your own judgment, and your own students, to decide whether a text is right.
Can I print them?
Yes. Every passage has Print student copy, with lines to write the answers on, and Print with answers, which fills them in.
Where do the passages come from?
They were written for Peabody Teach. None is copied from a book, a test or another site.