Kindergarten fiction passage about a new home and a new neighbor: 75 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Sam has a new home. The rooms are bare. His toys are still in boxes.
Sam sits in a big box. He feels small. He misses his old house.
Tap, tap! A boy peeks in the door. "I live next door. Is that a fort?"
"It is now," says Sam. He cuts a window with a safe cardboard flap. The boy hops in. Sam does not feel small now. The new home feels like home.
Where are Sam's toys? in the text
Where does Sam sit? in the text
Who taps at the door? in the text
What does Sam make with the box? in the text
Why does Sam feel better 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.
Sam has a new home. The rooms are bare. His toys are in boxes.
Sam sits in a big box. He feels small. He misses his old house.
Tap, tap! A boy peeks in. "I live next door. Is that a fort?"
"It is now," says Sam. The boy hops in. Sam is not sad now.
Sam has a new home. The rooms are bare. His toys are still in boxes.
Sam sits in a big box. He feels small. He misses his old house.
Tap, tap! A boy peeks in the door. "I live next door. Is that a fort?"
"It is now," says Sam. He cuts a window with a safe cardboard flap. The boy hops in. Sam does not feel small now. The new home feels like home.
Sam has just moved into a new home, and the rooms are completely bare. All of his toys are still packed away in boxes.
Sam climbs into a big empty box and sits quietly. He feels very small, and he misses his old house.
Tap, tap, tap! A boy peeks around the door. "I live next door," he says. "Is that a fort?"
"It is now," says Sam. He folds a cardboard flap to make a window. The boy hops in beside him, and suddenly Sam does not feel small at all. The new house is starting to feel like home.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 75 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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