Kindergarten fiction passage about an otter shares a stone: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Otter had a smooth gray stone. She liked to rub it. It was the last one on the bank.
Little Vole came to the bank. He was sad. He had no stone to play with.
Otter did not keep it. "We can share," she said. They took turns, and both of them grinned.
What did Otter have? in the text
Who came to the bank? in the text
Why was Vole sad? in the text
What did Otter say they could do? in the text
How did Otter and Vole feel 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.
Otter had a stone. It was smooth and gray. It was the last one.
Vole came. He was sad. He had no stone.
Otter said, "We can share." They took turns. They both grinned.
Otter had a smooth gray stone. She liked to rub it. It was the last one on the bank.
Little Vole came to the bank. He was sad. He had no stone to play with.
Otter did not keep it. "We can share," she said. They took turns, and both of them grinned.
Otter owned a smooth gray stone, and she loved to rub it with her paws. It was the very last stone left on the riverbank.
Little Vole wandered over looking sad because he had no stone to play with.
Otter did not keep it to herself. "We can share it," she said. They took turns all afternoon, and both of them grinned.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 53 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.
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