Kindergarten fiction passage about a goat and a rainy hill: 53 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Goat sat on a hill and counted clouds. One, two, three, four. She forgot to eat her lunch.
The clouds grew dark. Plop! Rain fell on her grass. Her lunch was wet.
Goat ran to a barn and ate dry hay. "Next time I will eat first," she said. "Then I can count."
What did Goat count? in the text
What did Goat forget to do? in the text
What happened when the clouds grew dark? in the text
Where did Goat run? in the text
What did Goat learn? 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.
Goat sat on a hill. She counted clouds. One, two, three. She forgot her lunch.
The clouds got dark. Rain fell. Her lunch got wet.
Goat ran to a barn. She ate dry hay. "I will eat first," she said.
Goat sat on a hill and counted clouds. One, two, three, four. She forgot to eat her lunch.
The clouds grew dark. Plop! Rain fell on her grass. Her lunch was wet.
Goat ran to a barn and ate dry hay. "Next time I will eat first," she said. "Then I can count."
Goat sat on top of a grassy hill and counted the clouds drifting by. One, two, three, four. She was so busy counting that she forgot to eat her lunch.
Before long the clouds turned dark. Plop! Rain splashed onto the grass, and her lunch was soaked.
Goat hurried into a barn and ate some dry hay. "Next time I will eat first," she said. "Then I can count."
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.
Yes. Print student copy gives the passage, the questions with lines to write on, and the word meanings. Print with answers gives the same page with the answers filled in. Both are made in your browser.
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