📖Twenty Christmas stories in two levels for kindergarten through 2nd grade, each with text-evidence questions. Children read, retell and answer questions about the same story at the level they can read, with Read & Retell pages and comprehension cards to carry the work further.
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This December reading set gives kindergarten through 2nd grade twenty Christmas stories to read, retell and answer questions about — each one in two levels, so the same story fits the readers in a class at different stages. Level 1 fits kindergarten and 1st grade, and Level 2 fits 1st and 2nd grade, and every story is 250 to 320 words long with three multiple-choice questions and two short-answer questions that ask children to go back to the text for evidence.
The reading itself is only the first step. Twenty Read & Retell pages ask children to read, retell, color and write, so the story gets told back in the child's own words. Comprehension cards carry retell, sequencing, main-idea and text-evidence questions that a teacher can use in a small group or leave in a center for children to work through on their own.
The two levels are the heart of the set. A class reads the same Christmas story, but a child still building fluency reads the K–1 version while a stronger reader takes the 1–2 version, and both children answer questions about the same characters and events. That means a teacher can teach one lesson, run one discussion and still give every child a text they can actually read.
Seven answer-key pages keep checking quick, and the black-and-white pages print cleanly on any classroom printer. The set works as December reading practice, as differentiated small-group work, as a reading center, as homework and as a plan a substitute can run without explanation.
📖 Teaching guide · 13 min readDecember Reading Passages: Teaching Text Evidence in K–2Read the guide →Featured in: December Reading Activities for K-2: Christmas Stories, Heart Words and Activity Books
The same story at two levels lets a teacher teach one lesson to a whole class and still give every child a text they can read. The retell pages and comprehension cards turn a short story into real reading work — retelling, sequencing and finding evidence — instead of a worksheet that is finished and forgotten.
It is written for kindergarten through 2nd grade. Each story comes in two levels: K–1 and 1–2, so the same story fits readers at different stages.
The set has 74 pages: 20 stories, each in 2 levels (40 pages), 20 Read & Retell pages, comprehension cards and 7 answer-key pages, plus teacher and student pages.
Each story is 250 to 320 words long, with 3 multiple-choice questions and 2 short-answer questions that ask children to find evidence in the text.
Yes. Seven answer-key pages are included, and the pages are black and white, so they print cleanly on any classroom printer.
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