Kindergarten nonfiction passage about hiccups: 70 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Hic! Hic! Max has the hiccups. Each hic is a quick jump in his chest. It makes a funny sound.
Max did not do a bad thing. Hiccups just come. They can come when you eat fast or laugh a lot.
Hiccups are not a big deal. They go away on their own.
Max sits still. He takes slow breaths. In, out. In, out. Soon the hics stop. Max grins.
What does Max have? in the text
Where does the jump happen? in the text
When can hiccups come? in the text
What does Max do to feel better? in the text
Was it Max's fault that he got hiccups? 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.
Hic! Hic! Max has the hiccups. Each hic is a quick jump in his chest.
Max did not do a bad thing. Hiccups just come. They come when you eat fast.
They go away on their own.
Max sits still. He breathes slow. Soon the hics stop.
Hic! Hic! Max has the hiccups. Each hic is a quick jump in his chest. It makes a funny sound.
Max did not do a bad thing. Hiccups just come. They can come when you eat fast or laugh a lot.
Hiccups are not a big deal. They go away on their own.
Max sits still. He takes slow breaths. In, out. In, out. Soon the hics stop. Max grins.
Hic! Hic! Max has the hiccups. Every hic is a quick little jump in his chest, and it makes a funny sound.
Max did not do anything wrong, because hiccups simply come along sometimes. They can happen when you eat very fast or when you laugh a lot.
Hiccups are not a big problem, and they go away all by themselves.
Max sits still and takes slow, calm breaths. In, out. In, out. Before long, the hics stop, and Max grins.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 70 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.
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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