Kindergarten fiction passage about finding a hidden key: 71 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Gran lost her key. "I cannot get into my shed," she said.
Ben looked in her coat. He looked in her bag. No key.
Then Ben saw a white dot on the shelf. It was flour. A little flour was on the lid of the jar.
Ben looked in the jar. Down in the flour was the key!
"I hid it there," said Gran. "I am so silly!" They both laughed.
What did Gran lose? in the text
Where did Ben look first? in the text
What was on the lid of the jar? in the text
Where was the key? in the text
Why did Gran say she was silly? 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.
Gran lost her key. "I cannot get in my shed," she said.
Ben looked in her coat. He looked in her bag. No key.
Then Ben saw flour on the lid of the jar. He looked in the jar. The key was in the flour!
"I hid it," said Gran. "I am silly!"
Gran lost her key. "I cannot get into my shed," she said.
Ben looked in her coat. He looked in her bag. No key.
Then Ben saw a white dot on the shelf. It was flour. A little flour was on the lid of the jar.
Ben looked in the jar. Down in the flour was the key!
"I hid it there," said Gran. "I am so silly!" They both laughed.
Gran could not find her key anywhere. "Now I cannot get into my garden shed," she said sadly.
Ben searched her coat pockets and her bag. There was no key at all.
Then Ben noticed a sprinkle of white flour on the lid of the jar on the shelf. He lifted the lid and reached inside. Down in the flour was the key!
"I hid it there myself," said Gran. "How silly of me!" They both laughed.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 71 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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