Kindergarten fiction passage about a grandma's jar of buttons: 76 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Nana has a big jar. It is full of buttons. Red ones, blue ones, and one shiny gold one.
Lily visits Nana on rainy days. They tip the jar on the rug. Click, clack!
They sort the buttons in rows. Lily makes a button cat. Nana makes a button boat.
When it is time to go home, Nana lets Lily pick one. Lily picks the gold one. She keeps it in her pocket to remember Nana.
What is in Nana's jar? in the text
When does Lily visit Nana? in the text
What does Lily make with the buttons? in the text
Which button does Lily pick? in the text
Why does Lily keep the button in her pocket? 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.
Nana has a big jar of buttons. Red ones, blue ones, and a shiny gold one.
Lily visits Nana on rainy days. They tip the jar on the rug. Click, clack!
They sort the buttons. Lily makes a cat. Nana makes a boat.
Nana lets Lily pick one. Lily picks the gold one. She keeps it to think of Nana.
Nana has a big jar. It is full of buttons. Red ones, blue ones, and one shiny gold one.
Lily visits Nana on rainy days. They tip the jar on the rug. Click, clack!
They sort the buttons in rows. Lily makes a button cat. Nana makes a button boat.
When it is time to go home, Nana lets Lily pick one. Lily picks the gold one. She keeps it in her pocket to remember Nana.
Nana keeps a big glass jar that is full to the top with buttons. There are red ones and blue ones, and there is one shiny gold one.
Lily visits Nana whenever the weather is rainy. Together they tip the jar onto the rug and listen to the buttons go click, clack!
They sort the buttons into neat rows. Lily builds a button cat, and Nana builds a button boat.
When it is time to go home, Nana lets Lily choose one button to keep. Lily chooses the gold one and tucks it into her pocket, so that she can remember Nana.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 76 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 1.6. 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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