Kindergarten fiction passage about a moth and the moon: 57 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Mo the moth saw a bright lamp on a porch. Round and round she flew. The lamp was warm and shiny.
"Come home," called her mom. "Follow the moon. The moon will not trick you."
Mo looked up. The big moon was high in the sky. Mo flew toward it. She was safe at home by night.
What did Mo see on the porch? in the text
What did Mo do around the lamp? in the text
Who called to Mo? in the text
What did her mom tell her to follow? in the text
Why was it good that Mo listened to her mom? 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.
Mo is a moth. She saw a lamp on a porch. It was bright. Round and round she flew.
"Come home," called Mom. "Follow the moon."
Mo looked up. The moon was big. Mo flew to it. She got home safe.
Mo the moth saw a bright lamp on a porch. Round and round she flew. The lamp was warm and shiny.
"Come home," called her mom. "Follow the moon. The moon will not trick you."
Mo looked up. The big moon was high in the sky. Mo flew toward it. She was safe at home by night.
Mo the moth spotted a glowing lamp on a porch. She fluttered around and around it because the lamp looked so warm and shiny.
"Come home right now," called her mother. "Follow the moon instead. The moon will never trick you."
Mo gazed upward and saw the big moon high above. She flew toward it and was safely home before the night grew deep.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 57 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.
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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