Kindergarten fiction passage about a bat who feels alone upside down: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Bat hung upside down in a cave. He felt alone. The cave was still and big.
"Hello?" said Bat. A tiny squeak said, "Hello!" It was another bat. Then came more squeaks.
Soon the cave was full of bats. They hung in a row. Bat was not alone. He just had to say hello.
Where did Bat hang? in the text
How did Bat feel at first? in the text
What did Bat say? in the text
How did the other bat answer? in the text
How did Bat make friends? 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.
Bat hung in a cave. He felt alone. The cave was big.
"Hello?" said Bat. A tiny squeak said, "Hello!" It was a bat. More squeaks came.
The cave was full of bats. Bat was not alone. He just said hello.
Bat hung upside down in a cave. He felt alone. The cave was still and big.
"Hello?" said Bat. A tiny squeak said, "Hello!" It was another bat. Then came more squeaks.
Soon the cave was full of bats. They hung in a row. Bat was not alone. He just had to say hello.
Bat hung upside down in a huge, quiet cave, and he felt very much alone. The cave seemed enormous and still.
"Hello?" he called softly. A tiny squeak answered, "Hello!" It was another bat, and soon many more squeaks echoed back.
Before long the cave was crowded with bats hanging in a long row. Bat was not alone after all. He had only needed to say hello.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.1. 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.
Under a 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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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