Kindergarten fiction passage about returning lost things: 59 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Sam finds a red mitten on the grass. It is not his. Somebody is sad without it.
Sam takes the mitten to the office. A box sits on a shelf. It says LOST AND FOUND.
Sam puts the mitten in the box. The next day, a girl comes in. "My mitten!" she says. Sam smiles. Being honest feels good.
What does Sam find? in the text
Where does Sam find it? in the text
Where does Sam take the mitten? in the text
Who comes in the next day? in the text
Why does Sam smile? 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.
Sam sees a red mitten on the grass. It is not his. Somebody is sad.
Sam takes it to the office. A box is on a shelf. It says LOST AND FOUND.
Sam puts the mitten in. Next day, a girl comes. "My mitten!" she says. Sam smiles. Being honest feels good.
Sam finds a red mitten on the grass. It is not his. Somebody is sad without it.
Sam takes the mitten to the office. A box sits on a shelf. It says LOST AND FOUND.
Sam puts the mitten in the box. The next day, a girl comes in. "My mitten!" she says. Sam smiles. Being honest feels good.
Sam discovers a red mitten lying on the grass. It does not belong to him, and he knows that somebody must be sad to have lost it.
He carries the mitten to the school office, where a box sits on a shelf. The box is labeled LOST AND FOUND.
Sam places the mitten inside. The next day, a girl walks in and says, "My mitten!" Sam smiles, because being honest feels good.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 59 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.5. 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.
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