Kindergarten fiction passage about a chore with socks: 63 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mom dumped a pile of socks on the bed. Otis had a job. He had to find the pairs.
He found a blue sock. Where was the other blue sock? He looked and looked. It had a hole in the toe!
Otis put the pairs in a row. One sock was left. It had stripes. Mom said, "That one is mine!" Otis clapped.
What was Otis's job? in the text
Who dumped the socks on the bed? in the text
What was wrong with the second blue sock? in the text
What did the last sock have on it? in the text
Why was one sock left with no match? 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.
Mom put socks on the bed. Otis had a job. He had to find the pairs.
He found a blue sock. Where was the other one? It had a hole in the toe!
One sock was left. It had stripes. Mom said, "That is mine!"
Mom dumped a pile of socks on the bed. Otis had a job. He had to find the pairs.
He found a blue sock. Where was the other blue sock? He looked and looked. It had a hole in the toe!
Otis put the pairs in a row. One sock was left. It had stripes. Mom said, "That one is mine!" Otis clapped.
Mom dumped an enormous pile of clean socks onto the bed, and Otis was given an important job. He had to match every sock with its partner.
First he found a blue sock. After searching for a while, he discovered its twin, which had a tiny hole in the toe.
Otis lined the pairs up in a neat row. Only one striped sock remained. "That one belongs to me!" laughed Mom, and Otis clapped.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 63 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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