Two Mice
Mouse has a home in a field.
Town Mouse comes in.
"Beans?" says Town Mouse. "Yuck!"
"Come to my home!"
The mice go to town.
Look! Cake and cheese!
Then a cat comes in!
The mice run. Thump, thump!
"I am so scared," says Mouse.
"Bye! I go home."
Mouse has beans. Mouse is glad.
Questions
- In a field
- In a bus
- In a hat
- More
- Yum
- Yuck
- Cake and cheese
- Hens
- Snow
- A cat
- A fox
- A hen
- He wants a nap
- Town is scary
- He has no hat
Words to know
- cake: a sweet treat
- cheese: a food made from milk
- scared: full of fear
Answer key: Two Mice
- A. In a field
- C. Yuck
- A. Cake and cheese
- A. A cat
- B. Town is scary
For the teacher: how this passage is levelled
“Two Mice” 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 | 55 words, 11 screens, 5 multiple-choice questions with an answer key, and 3 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.