Kindergarten fiction passage about a crab who walks sideways: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Little Crab walked sideways. The other crabs walked sideways too, but Little Crab felt silly.
A gull laughed. "Walk straight!" Little Crab tried. She fell in the sand. Flop!
Then a wave came in. Sideways, she zipped to a rock, quick as a wink. "My walk is just right for me," she said.
How did Little Crab walk? in the text
Who laughed at her? in the text
What happened when she tried to walk straight? in the text
Where did she zip when the wave came? in the text
Why did Little Crab say her walk was just right? 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.
Little Crab walked sideways. The other crabs did too. But she felt silly.
A gull laughed. "Walk straight!" Crab tried. She fell in the sand. Flop!
A wave came. Sideways, she zipped to a rock. "My walk is good for me," she said.
Little Crab walked sideways. The other crabs walked sideways too, but Little Crab felt silly.
A gull laughed. "Walk straight!" Little Crab tried. She fell in the sand. Flop!
Then a wave came in. Sideways, she zipped to a rock, quick as a wink. "My walk is just right for me," she said.
Little Crab always walked sideways, just as all of the other crabs did, but she still felt a little bit silly about it.
A seagull laughed at her. "Walk straight!" he squawked. Little Crab tried, but she tumbled into the sand. Flop!
Then a big wave rolled in. Sideways, she zipped to a rock as quick as a wink. "My walk is just right for me," she said proudly.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.7. 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.
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