Kindergarten fiction passage about a boat trip to a small island: 68 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Dad and Lin got in the red rowboat. Dad rowed. Splash, splash!
They rowed to Pebble Island. It was tiny. The beach was full of gray pebbles.
"Let us find a pebble with a stripe," said Lin. She looked and looked.
At last she found one. It had a white stripe. She put it in her pocket.
Then they rowed home. Lin held the pebble the whole way.
What color was the rowboat? in the text
Where did Dad and Lin row? in the text
What kind of pebble did Lin want? in the text
Where did Lin put the pebble? in the text
How do you think Lin felt about her pebble? 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.
Dad and Lin got in a red boat. Dad rowed. Splash!
They went to Pebble Island. It was tiny. The beach had gray pebbles.
"Find a pebble with a stripe," said Lin. She looked and looked. She found one! It had a white stripe. She put it in her pocket.
Then they went home.
Dad and Lin got in the red rowboat. Dad rowed. Splash, splash!
They rowed to Pebble Island. It was tiny. The beach was full of gray pebbles.
"Let us find a pebble with a stripe," said Lin. She looked and looked.
At last she found one. It had a white stripe. She put it in her pocket.
Then they rowed home. Lin held the pebble the whole way.
Dad and Lin climbed into the little red rowboat. Dad pulled the oars, and the water splashed all around them.
Before long they reached Pebble Island. It was tiny, and its beach was covered with gray pebbles.
"Let us search for a pebble with a stripe," said Lin. She looked and looked for a long time. At last she found a smooth one with a white stripe, and she tucked it into her pocket.
Then they rowed home, and Lin held the pebble the whole way.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 68 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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