Kindergarten fiction passage about learning to swing: 55 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
At recess, Pip sat on a swing. Her friends went up, up, up. Pip just sat. Her feet stayed on the ground.
"Kick your legs out," said Jo. "Then tuck them back."
Pip kicked. She tucked. She kicked and tucked. The swing began to go! Wind blew on her face. Pip laughed and went high.
Where was Pip at recess? in the text
Who told Pip what to do with her legs? in the text
What did Pip do with her legs? in the text
What blew on her face? in the text
Why did Pip laugh 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.
Pip sat on a swing at recess. Her friends went up. Pip did not. Her feet stayed down.
"Kick out," said Jo. "Then tuck in."
Pip kicked and tucked. The swing went! Pip laughed.
At recess, Pip sat on a swing. Her friends went up, up, up. Pip just sat. Her feet stayed on the ground.
"Kick your legs out," said Jo. "Then tuck them back."
Pip kicked. She tucked. She kicked and tucked. The swing began to go! Wind blew on her face. Pip laughed and went high.
During recess, Pip climbed onto a swing and watched her friends soar higher and higher. Her own feet stayed stuck to the ground, and the swing hardly moved.
"Stretch your legs out, and then tuck them back under you," suggested Jo.
Pip stretched, then tucked, again and again. Slowly the swing began to sway, and soon a cool wind brushed her face. Pip laughed as she swung high.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 55 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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