Kindergarten fiction passage about a robot with a squeaky wheel: 58 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Nib was a robot with one wheel. Squeak, squeak, squeak! The wheel made a loud noise.
The cat ran away. The birds flew off. Nib felt sad.
Then Nib met Gran. Gran had a small can of oil. She put one drop on the wheel.
Nib rolled. No squeak! The cat came back. The birds came back too.
How many wheels did Nib have? in the text
What noise did the wheel make? in the text
What did Gran put on the wheel? in the text
Who came back at the end? in the text
Why did the cat and birds come back? 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.
Nib was a robot. Nib had one wheel. Squeak, squeak! The wheel was loud.
The cat ran off. The birds flew off. Nib was sad.
Gran had a can of oil. She put a drop on the wheel.
Nib rolled. No squeak! The cat came back. The birds came back.
Nib was a robot with one wheel. Squeak, squeak, squeak! The wheel made a loud noise.
The cat ran away. The birds flew off. Nib felt sad.
Then Nib met Gran. Gran had a small can of oil. She put one drop on the wheel.
Nib rolled. No squeak! The cat came back. The birds came back too.
Nib was a friendly robot with just one wheel. Squeak, squeak, squeak! The wheel made a terribly loud noise whenever Nib rolled.
The cat ran away, and the birds flew off. Nib felt very sad.
Then Nib met Gran, who was carrying a small can of oil. She carefully put one drop on the wheel.
Nib rolled along without a single squeak. Soon the cat returned, and the birds came back too.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 58 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.
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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