Kindergarten fiction passage about a friend with a wiggly tooth: 65 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Rosa has a wobbly tooth. Wiggle, wiggle. It will not come out.
Her friend Tom has lost two teeth. He has a big gap in his smile.
"Does it hurt?" asks Rosa.
"Not much," says Tom. "I wiggled mine with my tongue. Then, pop!"
Rosa feels brave. She wiggles with her tongue. After lunch, pop! The tooth is out. Tom gives Rosa a high five.
What is wobbly? in the text
How many teeth has Tom lost? in the text
What did Tom use to wiggle his tooth? in the text
When does Rosa's tooth come out? in the text
Why does Rosa feel brave? 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.
Rosa has a wobbly tooth. Wiggle, wiggle. It will not come out.
Her friend Tom lost two teeth. He has a gap in his smile.
"Does it hurt?" asks Rosa.
"Not much," says Tom. "I used my tongue. Then, pop!"
Rosa feels brave. She tries it. After lunch, pop! The tooth is out.
Rosa has a wobbly tooth. Wiggle, wiggle. It will not come out.
Her friend Tom has lost two teeth. He has a big gap in his smile.
"Does it hurt?" asks Rosa.
"Not much," says Tom. "I wiggled mine with my tongue. Then, pop!"
Rosa feels brave. She wiggles with her tongue. After lunch, pop! The tooth is out. Tom gives Rosa a high five.
Rosa has a wobbly tooth that wiggles back and forth, but no matter what she does, it will not come out.
Her friend Tom has already lost two teeth, so he has a big gap in his smile.
"Does it hurt?" asks Rosa.
"Not very much," says Tom. "I kept wiggling mine with my tongue, and then, pop!"
Now Rosa feels brave. She wiggles her tooth with her tongue, too. Right after lunch, pop! Her tooth finally comes out, and Tom gives her a big high five.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 65 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.2. 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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