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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

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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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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



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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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



WPM: ______

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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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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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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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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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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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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



WPM: ______

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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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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



WPM: ______

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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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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: ______


WPM: ______

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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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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



WPM: ______

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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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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



WPM: ______

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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

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