Kindergarten fiction passage about trading lunch foods with a friend: 65 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Dee opens her lunch box. It has a pickle and a plain roll. Dee wants cheese.
Gus sits next to her. He has cheese and a bag of crackers. He wants a pickle.
"Do you want to swap?" asks Gus.
Dee gives Gus the pickle. Gus gives Dee the cheese. Crunch! Munch!
"Best lunch ever," says Dee. After that, Dee and Gus swap each day.
What is in Dee's lunch box? in the text
What does Dee want? in the text
What does Gus want? in the text
Who asks to swap? in the text
Why do you think they swap every day after that? 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.
Dee opens her lunch box. It has a pickle and a roll. Dee wants cheese.
Gus sits by her. He has cheese. He wants a pickle.
"Want to swap?" asks Gus.
Dee gives Gus the pickle. Gus gives Dee the cheese. Crunch!
"Best lunch," says Dee. They swap each day.
Dee opens her lunch box. It has a pickle and a plain roll. Dee wants cheese.
Gus sits next to her. He has cheese and a bag of crackers. He wants a pickle.
"Do you want to swap?" asks Gus.
Dee gives Gus the pickle. Gus gives Dee the cheese. Crunch! Munch!
"Best lunch ever," says Dee. After that, Dee and Gus swap each day.
Dee opens her lunch box and finds a crunchy pickle and a plain roll inside. What Dee truly wants is some cheese.
Gus sits down on the bench next to her. His lunch has cheese and a bag of crackers, but he is hoping for a pickle.
"Would you like to swap?" asks Gus.
Dee hands over her pickle, and Gus hands over his cheese. Crunch! Munch!
"This is the best lunch ever," says Dee. From that day on, Dee and Gus swap their lunch foods every single day.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 65 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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