Purple band
Yellow bandReady now · Open and print today
The Nightingale
From Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
This tale was written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1843 and has been loved around the world ever since. The text reflects its era; a few period terms have been modernised. Andersen was a Danish storyteller who wrote hundreds of fairy tales. This story reminds us that real beauty and kindness matter more than jewels or machines, and that true friendship cannot be bought or commanded.
- Band
- Yellow · Emerging readersTypical starting range: ages 6–8
- Length
- medium · about 544 words in 6 sections · 4 pictures
- Source
- Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, H. C. Andersen
- First published
- see the About page in the reader
- Regions
- Canada · United States
Included formats
- · Web reader and PDF
- · EPUB for e-readers
- · Home-print sheet
- · Folded booklet
- · Binder edition (8.5 × 11)
- · Worksheet
- · Quick Check (8 questions) with answer key
- · Read-aloud script
- · Colouring page
- · Teacher’s Edition (members)
Lesson at a glance
- Reading
- about 10 minutes at this band
- Pause questions
- 2
- Words to Know
- 6
- Quick Check
- 8 questions, with the answer key
- Let’s Talk
- 3 questions for afterwards
- Worksheet
- questions, an activity and a drawing prompt
About 35 minutes with one story, all of it.
Readers are engineered from the original public-domain text with AI under HummingRead’s published canon and Content Philosophy, checked by automated audit and sampled by a person. Pictures are made with AI to HummingRead’s brief for each story. How a reader is made.
Report a concern about this reader · What’s in a HummingRead reader
The same story