Kindergarten fiction passage about a pig who wears a boot on her head: 70 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Pru the pig found a big pink boot in the grass.
"A hat!" said Pru, and she put the boot on her head, which looked so odd.
A goat saw her. "That is a boot," he said.
"No, it is a hat," said Pru. "Look. My head is warm."
Then it rained. The boot kept Pru dry. The goat got wet. He asked, "May I have a boot hat too?"
What did Pru find? in the text
Where did Pru put the boot? in the text
What did the goat say it was? in the text
What happened when it rained? in the text
Why did the goat want a boot hat 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.
Pru the pig found a boot. It was big and pink.
"A hat!" said Pru. She put it on her head.
A goat said, "That is a boot."
"No, it is a hat," said Pru.
Then it rained. The boot kept Pru dry. The goat got wet. "May I have a boot hat too?" he asked.
Pru the pig found a big pink boot in the grass.
"A hat!" said Pru, and she put the boot on her head, which looked so odd.
A goat saw her. "That is a boot," he said.
"No, it is a hat," said Pru. "Look. My head is warm."
Then it rained. The boot kept Pru dry. The goat got wet. He asked, "May I have a boot hat too?"
Pru the pig discovered a big pink boot lying in the grass.
"What a fine hat!" said Pru, and she set the boot on top of her head. It looked very odd indeed.
A goat saw her and said, "That is not a hat. That is a boot."
"It is a hat," said Pru. "Look, my head is nice and warm."
Soon it began to rain. The boot kept Pru dry, but the goat got soaked. "May I have a boot hat too?" he asked.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 70 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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