Kindergarten fiction passage about a grandpa with loud shoes: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Grandpa has new shoes. They go squeak, squeak, squeak.
Ben and Grandpa walk to the park. Squeak, squeak! A girl turns and giggles. Ben feels hot in the face.
Grandpa winks. "My shoes can sing," he says. He steps to a beat. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!
Ben hums with him. The girl claps. Now Ben likes the squeaky shoes.
What sound do the new shoes make? in the text
Where do Ben and Grandpa walk? in the text
What does the girl do at first? in the text
What does Grandpa say the shoes can do? in the text
Why does Ben feel hot in the face? 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.
Grandpa has new shoes. They go squeak!
Ben and Grandpa go to the park. Squeak, squeak! A girl giggles. Ben feels shy.
Grandpa winks. "My shoes can sing," he says. He steps to a beat.
Ben hums. The girl claps. Ben likes the shoes now.
Grandpa has new shoes. They go squeak, squeak, squeak.
Ben and Grandpa walk to the park. Squeak, squeak! A girl turns and giggles. Ben feels hot in the face.
Grandpa winks. "My shoes can sing," he says. He steps to a beat. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!
Ben hums with him. The girl claps. Now Ben likes the squeaky shoes.
Grandpa has a brand new pair of shoes, and every step they make goes squeak, squeak, squeak.
Ben and Grandpa walk along the path to the park. Squeak, squeak! A girl nearby turns around and giggles. Ben feels his face turn hot and red.
Grandpa only winks at him. "These shoes can sing," he says, and he marches along to a beat. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!
Soon Ben is humming along with him. The girl begins to clap, and now Ben truly likes the squeaky shoes.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 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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