The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly
Pip is a little penguin.
Pip wants to fly. Flap, flap, flap!
Pip gets up on a big rock.
Pip jumps and lands on the ice.
A bird flies by. Pip is sad.
Pip can not fly like that bird.
Ned the penguin says, "Jump in!"
Pip jumps in the sea. Splash!
Pip's flippers go flap, flap, flap.
Pip can swim and swim. Pip is fast!
Pip gets a fish. Ned gets a fish.
Pip can not fly in the sky.
But Pip can fly in the sea!
Questions
- Ned
- Pip
- A bird
- A rock
- The sea
- The ice
- Ned
- Pip
- The bird
- Pip is wet
- Pip has no fish
- Pip cannot fly like the bird
- Pip can fly after all
- Pip can swim very fast
- Pip does not like fish
- Water going up
- A big rock
- A bird
Words to know
- penguin: a bird that swims
- flap: wave up and down
- splash: water going up
- sea: big salty water
- flippers: wings for swimming
- jump: spring up
Answer key: The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly
- B. Pip
- C. The ice
- A. Ned
- C. Pip cannot fly like the bird
- B. Pip can swim very fast
- A. Water going up
For the teacher: how this passage is levelled
“The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly” is a reading level 4 story. Every Peabody story at this level is written and checked to keep sentences to 8 words or fewer, to aim at an average of 5 words a sentence, and to show 1 to 8 words on a screen. At most 6% of its words may be off the familiar-word list. Readers reach this level by climbing, not by grade.
| This passage | 88 words, 13 screens, 6 multiple-choice questions with an answer key, and 6 vocabulary words with kid-sized meanings |
|---|---|
| Longest sentence at this level | 8 words |
| Words on a screen | 1 to 8 |
| Skills practised at this level | phonics (sounding words out), first sounds, sight words |
Reading level 4: the limits, a real sample and the free games. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment: use the questions to talk about the story, not to grade a child.