Kindergarten fiction passage about a button that makes you hop: 69 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Kit had a coat with a red button. If Kit pushed the button, her feet went hop, hop, hop!
Kit hopped over a log. She hopped over a puddle. She hopped over her dog, Bean. Bean barked and wagged his tail.
Then Kit saw a small frog. It was stuck in a hole. Kit hopped down next to it. She gave the frog a lift. The frog hopped away.
What color was the button? in the text
What happened when Kit pushed the button? in the text
What was the dog's name? in the text
Who was stuck in a hole? in the text
How do you think the frog felt 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.
Kit had a coat. It had a red button. Kit pushed it. Her feet went hop, hop, hop!
Kit hopped over a log. She hopped over a puddle. She hopped over her dog, Bean.
Kit saw a frog. It was stuck in a hole. Kit hopped down. She lifted the frog out. It hopped away.
Kit had a coat with a red button. If Kit pushed the button, her feet went hop, hop, hop!
Kit hopped over a log. She hopped over a puddle. She hopped over her dog, Bean. Bean barked and wagged his tail.
Then Kit saw a small frog. It was stuck in a hole. Kit hopped down next to it. She gave the frog a lift. The frog hopped away.
Kit wore a coat with a shiny red button. Whenever Kit pushed the button, her feet went hop, hop, hop!
Kit hopped over a log, and she hopped over a muddy puddle. She even hopped right over her dog, Bean, who barked and wagged his tail.
Then Kit noticed a small frog stuck in a deep hole. Kit hopped down beside it and gave the frog a lift. The grateful frog hopped away.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 69 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.0. 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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