Kindergarten fiction passage about a lost sock in a pot: 63 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Nan lost her red sock. She looked in the bed. She looked in the bag.
"Where is my sock?" said Nan.
Then Nan stirred the soup. Out came a red sock! It was in the pot.
"Yuck!" said Nan. "No more soup for me."
Her cat ate the soup. The cat did not mind. Nan put on her sock and had a snack.
What did Nan lose? in the text
Where did Nan find the sock? in the text
What did Nan say when she saw it? in the text
Who ate the soup? in the text
How did the sock get in the soup? 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.
Nan lost her red sock. She looked in the bed. She looked in the bag.
Then she stirred the soup. Out came a red sock! It was in the pot.
"Yuck!" said Nan.
Her cat ate the soup. Nan put on her sock.
Nan lost her red sock. She looked in the bed. She looked in the bag.
"Where is my sock?" said Nan.
Then Nan stirred the soup. Out came a red sock! It was in the pot.
"Yuck!" said Nan. "No more soup for me."
Her cat ate the soup. The cat did not mind. Nan put on her sock and had a snack.
Nan could not find her red sock anywhere. She looked under the bed, and she looked inside the bag.
"Where can my sock be?" she wondered.
Later, Nan stirred the soup, and out came a red sock! It had been hiding in the pot all along.
"Yuck!" cried Nan. "I will not eat this soup."
Her cat ate it happily, and Nan put on her sock and had a snack.
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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