Kindergarten fiction passage about a hen and a square egg: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Hattie Hen sat on her nest. Plop! Out came an egg. It was not round. It was square!
"Oh no," said Hattie. "Who will want a square egg?"
The other eggs rolled and rolled until they bumped into the wall, but the square egg sat still on the nest.
"Hooray!" said Hattie. "My square egg stays put!"
Who sat on the nest? in the text
What was odd about the egg? in the text
What did the other eggs do? in the text
What did the square egg do? in the text
Why was Hattie glad at the end? 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.
Hat the hen sat on a nest. Plop! An egg came out. It was square!
"Oh no," said Hat. "Who wants it?"
The eggs rolled. Bump! But the square egg sat still.
"Hooray!" said Hat. "It stays put!"
Hattie Hen sat on her nest. Plop! Out came an egg. It was not round. It was square!
"Oh no," said Hattie. "Who will want a square egg?"
The other eggs rolled and rolled until they bumped into the wall, but the square egg sat still on the nest.
"Hooray!" said Hattie. "My square egg stays put!"
Hattie Hen was sitting on her cozy nest when, plop, an egg slipped out. It was not round like the others. It was perfectly square!
"Oh no," said Hattie. "Who will ever want a square egg?"
While the other eggs rolled around and bumped into the wall, the square egg sat still on the nest.
"Hooray!" cried Hattie. "My square egg stays right where I put it!"
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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