Kindergarten fiction passage about a mole and a sunny hole: 56 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mole lived in a dark hole. It was snug, but it was dark. Mole wanted a window.
Mole dug up, up, up. Dirt fell on his nose. At last he made a small round hole in the roof.
A beam of sun came in. Now the hole was snug and bright. Mole did not give up.
Where did Mole live? in the text
What did Mole want? in the text
Which way did Mole dig? in the text
What came in through the small round hole? in the text
Why did Mole get his window in 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.
Mole had a dark hole. It was snug. But it was dark. Mole wanted a window.
Mole dug up. Dirt fell on his nose. He made a small hole in the roof.
Sun came in. The hole was bright. Mole did not give up.
Mole lived in a dark hole. It was snug, but it was dark. Mole wanted a window.
Mole dug up, up, up. Dirt fell on his nose. At last he made a small round hole in the roof.
A beam of sun came in. Now the hole was snug and bright. Mole did not give up.
Mole lived in a dark hole underground. It was warm and snug, but it was far too dim, and Mole wished for a window.
So Mole dug upward, and dirt tumbled onto his nose. At last he made a small round opening in the roof.
A shining beam of sun slipped inside. Now his home was snug and bright. Mole had never given up.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 56 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.
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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