Kindergarten fiction passage about tracks and clues in snow: 67 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Snow covered the garden. Ari saw tiny marks in it. They were small, like little hands.
"A clue!" said Ari. She followed the marks. They went past the bench. They went up to the bird feeder.
The seeds were gone. A fat squirrel sat on top. He had seeds in his cheeks!
"So you are the seed thief," said Ari. She laughed and filled the feeder again.
What covered the garden? in the text
What did the marks look like? in the text
Where did the marks go? in the text
What did Ari do at the end? in the text
How did Ari know the squirrel took the seeds? 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.
Snow was on the garden. Ari saw tiny marks. They looked like little hands.
"A clue!" said Ari. She followed the marks. They went up to the bird feeder.
The seeds were gone. A fat squirrel sat on top. He had seeds in his cheeks!
"You took the seeds," said Ari. She laughed. She filled the feeder.
Snow covered the garden. Ari saw tiny marks in it. They were small, like little hands.
"A clue!" said Ari. She followed the marks. They went past the bench. They went up to the bird feeder.
The seeds were gone. A fat squirrel sat on top. He had seeds in his cheeks!
"So you are the seed thief," said Ari. She laughed and filled the feeder again.
Fresh snow blanketed the whole garden. Ari spotted a trail of tiny marks that looked like little hands.
"A clue!" she cried. Ari followed the marks past the wooden bench and right up to the bird feeder.
All of the seeds had disappeared. A plump squirrel sat on top of the feeder, and his cheeks were stuffed with seeds!
"So you are the seed thief," said Ari. She laughed, and then she filled the feeder once more.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 67 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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