Kindergarten fiction passage about a cloud that collects puddles: 61 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Fluff was a little gray cloud. Fluff had a job. Fluff collected puddles.
When it rained, the puddles sat in the road. Cars splashed them. Shoes got wet.
Fluff floated down low. Slurp! Fluff drank a puddle. Slurp! Fluff drank one more.
Then Fluff floated up high. Later Fluff made a soft rain for the flowers. The flowers said, "Thank you."
What color was Fluff? in the text
What was Fluff's job? in the text
What sound did Fluff make when drinking? in the text
Who said thank you at the end? in the text
Why did the flowers like Fluff's rain? 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.
Fluff was a gray cloud. Fluff had a job. Fluff took puddles.
After rain, puddles sat in the road. Shoes got wet.
Fluff came down low. Slurp! Fluff drank a puddle. Slurp! One more.
Then Fluff went up. Later Fluff made rain for the flowers. The flowers said, "Thank you."
Fluff was a little gray cloud. Fluff had a job. Fluff collected puddles.
When it rained, the puddles sat in the road. Cars splashed them. Shoes got wet.
Fluff floated down low. Slurp! Fluff drank a puddle. Slurp! Fluff drank one more.
Then Fluff floated up high. Later Fluff made a soft rain for the flowers. The flowers said, "Thank you."
Fluff was a little gray cloud with an important job. Fluff collected puddles.
Whenever it rained, puddles gathered in the road. Cars splashed through them, and people's shoes got soaked.
Fluff drifted down very low. Slurp! Fluff drank up one puddle. Slurp! Fluff drank up another.
Then Fluff floated back up high. Later Fluff made a gentle rain for the garden, and the flowers whispered, "Thank you."
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 61 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.0. 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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