Kindergarten fiction passage about a strange sound in a closet: 62 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Nia heard a hum. Hmmmm. It came from the closet.
"Is it a ghost?" she asked. She was a little bit scared. But she was brave too.
Nia opened the door. She saw her old toy phone. It was buzzing in a shoe!
Mom had left it on. Nia turned it off. The hum was gone. Nia giggled and shut the door.
Where did the hum come from? in the text
What did Nia see in the closet? in the text
Where was the toy phone? in the text
What did Nia do to stop the hum? in the text
Why did Nia giggle 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.
Nia heard a hum. Hmmmm. It came from the closet.
"Is it a ghost?" she said. She was a bit scared. But she was brave.
Nia opened the door. She saw her old toy phone in a shoe. It was buzzing!
Nia turned it off. The hum was gone. She giggled.
Nia heard a hum. Hmmmm. It came from the closet.
"Is it a ghost?" she asked. She was a little bit scared. But she was brave too.
Nia opened the door. She saw her old toy phone. It was buzzing in a shoe!
Mom had left it on. Nia turned it off. The hum was gone. Nia giggled and shut the door.
Nia heard a strange humming sound. Hmmmm. It seemed to be coming from inside the hall closet.
"Could it be a ghost?" she whispered. She felt a little scared, but she was also very brave.
Slowly Nia opened the closet door. Inside a shoe, she found her old toy phone, buzzing away!
Mom had accidentally left it turned on. Nia switched it off, and the humming stopped. She giggled and closed the door.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 62 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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