Kindergarten fiction passage about a first music try: 54 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Dev got a kazoo. It was green. He put it in his mouth and blew. Nothing came out but air.
Gran said, "Do not blow. Hum!" Dev hummed. Buzz! The kazoo sang.
Now Dev hums a song with Gran every day. Gran plays the drum on a pot. They are a band of two.
What color was the kazoo? in the text
What came out when Dev blew? in the text
What did Gran tell Dev to do? in the text
What does Gran play for the band? in the text
Why did the kazoo sing when Dev hummed? 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.
Dev got a green kazoo. He blew into it. Just air came out.
Gran said, "Do not blow. Hum!" Dev hummed. Buzz! The kazoo sang.
Now Dev and Gran play a song each day. Gran plays a drum on a pot.
Dev got a kazoo. It was green. He put it in his mouth and blew. Nothing came out but air.
Gran said, "Do not blow. Hum!" Dev hummed. Buzz! The kazoo sang.
Now Dev hums a song with Gran every day. Gran plays the drum on a pot. They are a band of two.
Dev received a shiny green kazoo as a gift. He put it in his mouth and blew as hard as he could, but nothing came out except air.
"You do not blow a kazoo, you hum into it," Gran explained. Dev hummed, and the kazoo gave a loud, funny buzz.
Now Dev and Gran make music together every single day. Dev hums into his kazoo while Gran bangs a drum made from an old pot.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 54 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.
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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