Kindergarten fiction passage about a tiny town in a teacup: 66 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Max looked into a teacup. A tiny town was in it! The houses were as small as peas.
A tiny man waved up at Max. "Please do not shake the cup," he said. "Our bridge will fall."
Max held the cup still. He sat very quiet. The little people sang a song for him.
Then Max set the cup on the shelf. He said, "Bye, bye."
What was inside the teacup? in the text
How small were the houses? in the text
What did the tiny man ask Max not to do? in the text
What did the little people do for Max? in the text
Why did Max sit very quiet and still? 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.
Max looked in a teacup. A tiny town was in it! The houses were small like peas.
A tiny man said, "Do not shake the cup. Our bridge will fall."
Max held the cup still. The tiny people sang a song.
Max put the cup on the shelf. He said, "Bye."
Max looked into a teacup. A tiny town was in it! The houses were as small as peas.
A tiny man waved up at Max. "Please do not shake the cup," he said. "Our bridge will fall."
Max held the cup still. He sat very quiet. The little people sang a song for him.
Then Max set the cup on the shelf. He said, "Bye, bye."
Max peered into a teacup and discovered a tiny town inside! The little houses were about as small as peas.
A tiny man waved up at him and called out, "Please do not shake the cup, or our bridge will fall."
Max held the cup perfectly still and sat very quietly. The little people sang a cheerful song just for him.
Then Max gently placed the teacup back on the shelf and whispered, "Goodbye."
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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