Kindergarten fiction passage about a tiny moon that glows: 66 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Bo found a tiny moon in his coat pocket. It was round and white. It was no bigger than a button.
That night the hall was dark. Bo's sister was scared. Bo took out the tiny moon. It began to glow.
Now the hall was bright. Bo and his sister walked to the kitchen. They had a snack. Then the moon went back in the pocket.
Where did Bo find the tiny moon? in the text
How big was the moon? in the text
What did the moon do in the dark hall? in the text
Where did Bo and his sister go? in the text
Why was the sister not scared 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.
Bo had a coat. In the pocket was a tiny moon. It was white and round.
It was dark in the hall. Bo's sister was scared. Bo held up the moon. It glowed.
The hall was bright. They went to the kitchen. They had a snack.
Bo found a tiny moon in his coat pocket. It was round and white. It was no bigger than a button.
That night the hall was dark. Bo's sister was scared. Bo took out the tiny moon. It began to glow.
Now the hall was bright. Bo and his sister walked to the kitchen. They had a snack. Then the moon went back in the pocket.
Bo discovered a tiny moon in the pocket of his coat. It was round and white, and it was hardly bigger than a button.
That night the hallway was very dark, and Bo's sister was frightened. Bo carefully took out the tiny moon, and it began to glow.
Soon the whole hallway was bright. Bo and his sister walked together to the kitchen and shared a snack. Afterward the moon went back into his pocket.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 66 words and works out to a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of about 0.3. 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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