Kindergarten fiction passage about sharing mittens on a cold day: 73 words, five questions, an answer key and vocabulary.
Pia and Jo walk to the bus stop together. The wind is very cold today. Pia lost one mitten. Jo lost one too.
"My hand is icy," says Pia.
Jo thinks for a moment. "I have a plan." Jo puts on a mitten. Pia puts on a mitten. They hold hands, and their bare hands go in one big pocket.
Now both hands are warm. The bus comes. Pia and Jo skip on.
Where do Pia and Jo walk? in the text
What did each girl lose? in the text
Where do their bare hands go? in the text
What comes at the end? in the text
Why are both hands warm now? 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.
Pia and Jo go to the bus stop. The wind is cold. Pia lost a mitten. Jo lost one too.
"My hand is cold," says Pia.
Jo has a plan. Jo puts on a mitten. Pia puts on a mitten. They hold hands in a pocket.
Now both hands are warm. The bus comes.
Pia and Jo walk to the bus stop together. The wind is very cold today. Pia lost one mitten. Jo lost one too.
"My hand is icy," says Pia.
Jo thinks for a moment. "I have a plan." Jo puts on a mitten. Pia puts on a mitten. They hold hands, and their bare hands go in one big pocket.
Now both hands are warm. The bus comes. Pia and Jo skip on.
Pia and Jo are walking to the bus stop on a windy morning, and the air is very cold. Pia lost one of her mittens. Jo lost one of hers as well.
"My bare hand is absolutely icy," says Pia.
Jo thinks for a moment. "I have a plan." Jo pulls on her mitten, and Pia pulls on hers. Then they hold their bare hands together and tuck them into one big pocket.
Now both of their hands are warm. When the bus comes, Pia and Jo skip on happily.
It was written for Kindergarten. It has 73 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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