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Timed Readings from your
Favourite Stories
A collection of literature and comprehension questions for Kindergarten
Created and Compiled by Zoë Clement
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How to use this book:
1. Track reading progress using the timed
reading chart provided:
a. Time students as they read each story
aloud.
b. As the student reads:
• make a note of where the student is at after ONE
MINUTE.
• circle words that are difficult to sound out/ they are unable to read (“real errors”).
• underline words they struggle to read but self-correct
know as they read, or create a second copy and track
difficult words.
An optional assessment tool is recording the accuracy rate: errors and self-corrections as a percent. This helps you to see whether a
student is reading at, below or above this reading level.
c. Write the reading time at the
bottom of each story, as well as in the chart provided. Students
can track their progress over the
course of each reading.
Percent Hard <90%
Instructional 90-94%
Independent >95%
Errors 15 + errors 8-14 errors 0-7 errors
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2. An additional assessment tool is to calculate the WPM. Write the
WPM at the bottom of each story page, as well as on the Timed Reading Chart to track progress.
For example: if the story has 36 words, and 17 are circled or underlined, the correct word “score” is 19. If the time taken to read the story was 4.34 min, translate this into seconds (4 x 60 + 34 = 274 seconds) WPM is calculated as follows: the correct words are multiplied by 60 (19 x 60 = 1140) and divided by the total reading time
3. Ask students to complete the
Reading Comprehension Questions.
Use the answer key found at the
end of this book to mark student’s answers. Write the comprehension
score at the bottom of the Q&A
page, as well as on the Timed
Reading Chart.
WORDS READ: 36 = _________ (mistakes) = _________ (correct words/ accuracy rate) ACCURACY RATE: _________ % TIME: _____ : _____ à seconds _________ WPM: correct words _________ x 60 divide by time (in seconds): _________ = _________
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Timed Reading Chart
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
+10:00 mins
10:00 mins
9:00 mins
8:00 mins
7:00 mins
6:00 mins
5:00 mins
4:00 mins
3:00 mins
2:00 mins
1:00 min
Date:
Comp Score
Accuracy Rate %
WPM
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Reading Goals for Kindergarten
1. Learn to recognize short sound segments (/s/e/l/l/)
2. Learn to recognize consonants
3. Learning to blend two letters together
4. Learn to sound out one-vowel words
5. Learn to recognize lone vowels and to sound two-vowel words
6. Learn to read consonant blends (ch, th, sh, fr, st)
7. Learn to read word-families (-ing, -ed, -er)
8. is able to read upper and lower case letters
Kindergarten WPM goal: 30
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #1
The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree
By Stan and Jan Berenstain
Three little bears.
One with a light.
One with a stick.
One with a rope.
A spooky old tree.
Do they dare go into
that spooky old tree?
Yes, they dare.
31 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension Questions & Recall
1. What do the bears have:
a. rope, light and stick
b. backpack, whistle and snack
c. snack, light and blanket
2. What spooky thing do they see:
a. a wolf
b. a bear
c. a tree
3. What are the bears doing?
a. practicing a play
b. going on an adventure
c. saving their friend
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #2
Fox in Socks By Dr. Seuss
Fox
Socks
Box Knox.
Knox in a box.
Fox in socks.
Knox on fox In socks in box.
Socks on Knox
And Knox in box.
Fox in Socks
On box on Knox
32 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. What is Knox standing on:
a. an ox
b. a box
c. a rock
2. What word does not rhyme with Knox
a. Know
b. fox
c. blocks
3. What is the Fox wearing?
a. slippers
b. socks
c. a box
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #3
Titch
Titch was little.
His sister Mary
was a bit bigger.
And his brother Pete
was a lot bigger.
Pete had a great big bike.
Mary had a big bike.
And Titch had a little tricycle.
35 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. What is Titch’s sister’s name:
a. Sally
b. Mary
c. Beth
d. Amy
2. What do Titch’s brother and sister have:
a. balls
b. running shoes
c. bikes
d. video games
3. How old do you think Titch is:
a. a baby
b. 3 or 4
c. 7 or 8
d. 12 or 13
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #4
Whose Mouse Are You?
By Robery Kraus
Whose mouse are you?
Nobody’s mouse.
Where is your mother?
Inside the cat.
Where is your father? Caught in a trap.
Where is your sister?
Far from home.
28 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______ Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. Where is mouse’s mother?
a. inside the house
b. outside playing
c. inside the cat
d. in a trap
2. Where is mouse’s father?
a. inside the house
b. outside playing
c. inside the cat
d. in a trap
3. How does the mouse feel in this story?
a. happy
b. excited
c. sad
d. lonely
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #5
I Spy By Jean Marzollo
I spy a hammer,
A rabbit,
A pail,
A whistle,
A button,
A horse on its tail;
A pencil
A penguin
A cat that is blue—
What else should you find?
The blocks give a clue.
36 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______ Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. Which items was NOT in the story:
a. hammer
b. button
c. horse on its tail
d. monkey
2. What colour is the cat:
a. blue
b. red
c. white
d. black and white
3. What rhymes with tail:
a. top
b. trail
c. nine
d. tape
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #6
Things that Go
By Richard Scary
Look what’s coming
Down the road in Busytown—
Aa
ambulance
apple car
Bb
Bananamobile
bugdozer
Cc
Corn car
Crayon car
Dd
Delivery van,
Dump truck…
Ee
Egg truck,
Ff
Fire truck
31 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. What is the car that goes with C
a. crayon
b. carrot
c. camel
d. cucumber
2. What is the truck that goes with E
a. eraser
b. elephant
c. egg
d. ear
3. Circle the letters did this story talk about
A F D Z B D K T E S C O L
Score: ___ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #7
Eating the Alphabet
By Lois Ehlert
Apple to Zucchini
Come take a look. Start eating your way
Through this alphabet book.
Aa
ARTICHOKE artichoke APROCOT apricot
AVOCADO avocado
APPLE apple
Bb BLUEBERRY blueberry
BRUSSELS SPROUTS brussels sprouts
BEAN bean
BEET beet
35 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. Apple says to Zucchini: “come take a ____”
a. peak
b. glance
c. look
d. taste
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the B’s listed in the story:
a. Banana
b. Beet
c. Blueberry
d. Bean
3. This is a story about:
a. animals
b. letters of the alphabet
c. eating healthy food
d. sharing with your friends
Score: __ /3
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #8
Painting a Rainbow
By Lois Ehlert
Every year Mom and
I plant a rainbow.
In the fall we buy some bulbs
And plant them in the ground.
We order seeds from catalogues
And wait all winter long
For spring to warm the soil
And sprout the bulbs.
41 WORDS Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. What is the first thing the mom and child do:
a. order seeds
b. buy bulbs
c. wait all winter
d. plant the seeds
2. Why is this story called Planting a Rainbow
________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________
3. Is this a rhyming story: YES NO
4. In what season do they buy bulbs
a. Spring
b. Summer
c. Fall
d. Winter
Score: ___/ 4
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #9
Barnyard Dance
By Sandra Boynton
Stomp your feet!
Clap your hands! Everybody ready
for a BARNYARD DANCE
Bow to the horse.
Bow to the cow. Twirl with the pig if you know how.
Bounce with the bunny
Strut with the duck. Spin with the chickens now—
CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK!
44 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. Who do the animals twirl with:
a. cow
b. sheep
c. pig
d. donkey
2. Who struts in the story:
a. duck
b. bunny
c. cow
d. pig
3. What word rhymes with how in the story:
a. plow
b. cow
c. now
d. bow
4. What makes this story fun to read:
________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________
Score: ______/ 4
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Level K Reading Comprehension
Story #10
Three Billy Goats Gruff
by Nick Page
By a snowy mountain river,
lived a goat called little Will.
With him were his bigger brothers,
Brother Phil and Big Bad Bill.
Beneath the bridge, across the river
lived a horrid troll called Sid.
Every day, he croaked a poem
while below the bridge he hid.
47 WORDS
Words read correctly: ______
Total reading time: ______
WPM: ______
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Comprehension & Recall
1. What was the name of the oldest brother:
a. Little Mac
b. Brother Bob
c. Big Bad Bill
d. Brother Goat Bill
2. Why is Sid horrid:
a. he hides under the bridge
b. he sings terribly
c. he won’t play with the goats
d. he steals their food
3. What word rhymes with Sid in the story:
a. pig
b. hid
c. lid
d. did
4. What do you think is going to happen next?
________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________
Score: ______/ 4
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Answer Key
1. a, c, b
2. b, a, b
3. b, c, b,
4. c, d, c
5. d, a, b
6. a, c, abcde
7. c, a, b
8. b, plants bloom to make the colours of a rainbow, NO, c
9. c, a, c, rhythm and rhyme
10. c, a, b, varies