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Critical thinking reading passages are the foundation of Socratic seminars and quality close reading. Selecting reading passages that inspire curiosity, critical thinking and can be used for either close reading or Socratic seminars takes pre-planning and a bit of text analysis. One of the best methods for selecting Critical Thinking Reading Passages is using a Syntopical examination of how many great ideas the passages contain. Dr. Mortimer J. Adler created a list of 103 philosophical topics that can be used to analyze text for the quality of ideas presented. Text selection is key to quality close reading and immersive Socratic seminars.

syntopical

Referring to a type of analysis in which different works are compared and contrasted.

After finishing his syntopical reading of the leaders' speeches, he wrote an essay comparing the language used by Reagan, Carter, Gorbachev, and Qaddafi.

A list of 103 philosophical topics

ONE PAGE CRITICAL THINKING PASSAGES ALIGNED TO the COMMON CORE

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Grade Level Fiction Passages

2nd-3rd Grade Reading Level

The Ants and the Grasshopper

A Better Community

The Big Game

The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"

Changing Our Street (realistic fiction)

How the Firefly Got Its Light

Letter to Grandmother

Little Pink Riding Hood English / Spanish

The Little Red Hen

Making Progress

Mama's Happy Christmas

More Trees

My Community

My First Baseball Game

My Job

My New Brother

My Sister, the Soldier

The Turtle and the Rabbit

The Turtle and the Ducks

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?The Ants and the Grasshopper

A Better Community

The Big Game

The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"

Changing Our Street (realistic fiction)

How the Firefly Got Its Light

Letter to Grandmother

Little Pink Riding Hood English / Spanish

The Little Red Hen

Making Progress

Mama's Happy Christmas

More Trees

My Community

My First Baseball Game

My Job

My New Brother

My Sister, the Soldier

The Turtle and the Rabbit

The Turtle and the Ducks

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

2nd-3rd Grade Reading Level

After the Chicago Fire sequence and summarize

American Explorers evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Animal Studies infer and support the main idea of a passage

Block Clubs infer and support the main idea of a passage

The Captain's Job infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Changes identify and support the main idea in nonfiction texts

Chicago Fire sequence events, infer motive, and write about nonfiction

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish

Chicago Legacy, DuSable's Choices and Changes locate and use information to analyze a situation, then write about it English / Spanish

Chicago's First Leader infer and support the main idea of a passage

The First Flyers infer and support the main idea of a passage

George Washington Carver

Grant Park write an extended response about a nonfiction reading

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Learn about Ghana infer and support the main idea of a passage

Letter to the Mayor evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile

Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Natural Gas: An Energy Resource infer and support the main idea of a passage

A New Park evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Pigeon Creek infer and support the main idea of a passage

Pioneer Families infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Ecology analyze information in a nonfiction text

Prairie Ecology with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Read to Learn about Symbols, Maps, and Art evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Staying in Phoenix summarize a passage

Transportation Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

4th Grade Reading Level

The Astronaut's Diary

The Challenge

Changing Transportation Routes

The Lion and the Spider

A New Day Realistic Fiction about the Election of Barack Obama and Civil Rights

A Proud Flight The story of Icarus

Traveling with Lewis and Clark

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

4th Grade Reading Level

Traveling West evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

What is a Fable? evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Working at the Hospital evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Breaking the Food Chain infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Changer, Jane Addams infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago High Schools evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish

Chicago Legacy, DuSable's Choices and Changes locate and use information to analyze a situation, then write about it English / Spanish

City Government infer and support the main idea of a passage

The Early Chicago Environment and People classify information and summarize a nonfiction topic

Learn about Egypt infer and support the main idea of a passage

The Football Team identify the main idea

A Garden in Lawndale evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea (4th grade reading level)

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Illinois Pioneers and Prairies infer while reading a history

Learning about the Solar System identify the main idea of a passage, write an extended response about a nonfiction passage

Natural Gas: An Energy Resource infer and support the main idea of a passage

Penguins

Pilsen, A Community Changes identify causes and effects

Plants and Places infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Changes identify an author's purpose, write an extended response

Prairie Changing the Ecosystem with Multiple Choice Questions analyze information in a nonfiction text

Seasons on the Prairie infer and support the main idea of a passage

Seasons on the Prairie with Multiple Choice Questions

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions

Space Food infer and support the main idea of a passage

Staying in Phoenix infer and support the main idea of a passage

Today's Telephone infer and support the main idea of a passage

Transportation Workers evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

What is a Fable? evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Working at the Television Station evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Working at the Hospital evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

The Working Tools of Insects infer and support the main idea of a passage

5th Grade Reading Level

Barack Obama Makes History

The Cloud

Columbus and the Egg historical fiction

The Difficult Journey

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Flying

The Gulls of Salt Lake

I Like Plants

Making Progress

Mama's Happy Christmas

Nature's Violet Children

Potawatomi Prairie

Soldier's Letter

The Technology Trip

Training for the Presidency

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

5th Grade Reading Level

American Explorers infer and support the main idea of a passage

Animal Studies infer and support the main idea of a passage

Better Living in Chicago: Jane Addams restate a situation presented in text; write to communicate about a situation (5th grade reading level)

Chicago Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Fire infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago Legacy: Burnham's Plan locate and use information to analyze a situation, write about a topic English / Spanish

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I can infer the author's purpose

Election Choices infer and support the main idea of a passage

From Many Places evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Learn about Ethiopia infer and support the main idea of a passage )

George Washington Carver

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

How Did People Solve a Problem?

How Have Students Made Community Progress? analyze a problem and solution in a text, identify and support the main idea

Penguins

Prairie Keepers analyze information in a nonfiction text

Prairie Keepers with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Public Transportation evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Read to Learn about City Systems evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Read to Learn about Elections evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

The Recycle Center evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Reversing the Chicago River identify cause-effect relations and infer predictions

Seasons on the Prairie analyze information in a nonfiction text

Seasons on the Prairie with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions

Valley Forge infer and support the main idea of a passage

Who Am I sequence events, infer motive, and write about nonfiction

6th Grade Reading Level

City Mouse--a Fable

Community Progress realistic fiction about a mural

The Elves and the Shoemaker

The First Flag

A Good Student realistic fiction about starting high school

A Great Digger--A North American Fable

His First Dollar historical fiction about Abraham Lincoln

Letter to Grandmother

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

6th Grade Reading Level

Before Chicago infer and support the main idea of a passage

Chicago's First Leader infer and support the main idea of a passage

The Early Chicago Environment and People classify information and summarize a nonfiction topic

Election Choices infer and support the main idea of a passage

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Inferential Questions: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech

Labor Day Address--Barack Obama Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

Learn about Zambia infer and support the main idea of a passage

Nutrition Lesson evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Plants and Food infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Ecology evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Prairie Ecology with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Settlement analyze information in a nonfiction text

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Seasons on the Prairie infer and support the main idea of a passage

Seasons on the Prairie with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Traveling West infer and support the main idea of a passage

7th Grade Reading Level

Barack Obama Makes History

Columbus and the Egg historical fiction about an event showing Columbus as a smart person

A Good Student realistic fiction about starting high school

I Like Plants

John's Bright Idea

Making a Difference

My First Baseball Game

My Summer

Potawatomi Prairie

The Red Apples

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

7th Grade Reading Level

Honest Abe infer and support the main idea of a passage

Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Labor Day Address--Barack Obama Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

Learn about Kenya infer and support the main idea of a passage

Learning about the Solar System infer and support the main idea of a passage

Pilsen--A Community Changes identify causes and effects

Prairie Keepers infer and support the main idea of a passage

Prairie Keepers with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Today's Telephone infer and support the main idea of a passage

8th-10th Grade Reading Level

The Difficult Journey

The Gulls of Salt Lake

Lexington

My Job

My New President

My Sister, the Soldier

Potawatomi Prairie

See Our Progress

Training for the Presidency

Grade Level Nonfiction Passages

8th-10th Grade Reading Level

An African Heritage in Chicago identify and support the main idea in a nonfiction passage

Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress identify and support the theme of a text

Changing the Ecosystem infer and support the main idea of a passage

Changing the Ecosystem with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Chicago is a City of Possibilities: Deval Patrick, Leader for Chicago analyze a text and write an extended response based on it

Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

George Washington Carver

Gwendolyn Brooks, An African American Poet

Honest Abe infer and support the main idea of a passage

Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Inferential Questions: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech

Labor Day Address--Barack Obama Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

Learn about Physical Therapists evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Learn about South Africa evaluate information, summarize, and identify and support a main idea

Maintaining Cultural Continuity infer and support the main idea of a passage

New Leadership analyze a speech

Settlement infer and support the main idea of a passage

Settlement with Multiple Choice Questions and Activities

Transportation Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

What is Your Own Big Plan? (Barack Obama speech) analyze a text and respond to the issues it presents, write an extended response to a persuasive text

What Values Have Shaped Chicago? identify the main idea of a passage

Why is Community Service Important? identify the main idea and supporting information

Chicago High Schools infer predictions

Chicago Legacy: DuSable's Choices and Changes infer and support the main idea of a passage

Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech infer and support the main idea of a passage

Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech

Frederick Douglass Speech on Women's Suffrage

John F. Kennedy's Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

President Barack Obama's Speech to Students

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

Dr. Mortimer J. Adler Co-Founder and Chairman Center For the Study of the Great Ideas

The 103 Great Ideas Alphabetically

The 103 Great Ideas by Category

THE 103 GREAT IDEAS

The list of 103 ideas is broken between the two volumes, as follows:
Volume I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and Love.
Volume II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition,^[13] Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation,^[14] Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny and Despotism, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and World.

How can a Dyslexic Reading Teacher HELP 95% of all at-risk students pass the EOG Reading Test? 10 Consecutive Years!

"Mr Taylor who annually starts with a class of fourth graders, 2/3 of whom are below grade level, and ends the year with most of the class at and above grade level. He gets results by emphasizing reading and writing, and holds students responsible for the work assigned. All the students read the same challenging books, stories and poems; they spend a lot of time on vocabulary, take notes, identify the main chapter idea and write a chapter summary every day. They read about six challenging books a year...Fortunately for his students, he puts them first and is determined that every student will make at least one year of progress in his class. Some students make spectacular gains in reading, writing or math. The average student this past year made about three years academic progress....His Title I students perform as well as students in the nearby "rich" area with all top-rated schools." Robert Cherba

Socratic Seminar Questions?

How do laws serve or harm justice?

Why is the concept of blind justice important?

The Logicians Refuted

Logicians have but ill defined

As rational, the human kind;

Reason, they say, belongs to man,

But let them prove it if they can.

Wise Aristotle and Smiglesius,

By ratiocinations specious,

Have strove to prove, with great precision,

With definition and division,

Homo est ratione praeditum;

But for my soul I cannot credit 'em,

And must, in spite of them, maintain,

That man and all his ways are vain;

And that this boasted lord of nature

Is both a weak and erring creature;

That instinct is a surer guide

Than reason, boasting mortals' pride;

And that brute beasts are far before 'em.

Deus est anima brutorum.

Whoever knew an honest brute

At law his neighbour prosecute,

Bring action for assault or battery,

Or friend beguile with lies and flattery?

O'er plains they ramble unconfined,

No politics disturb their mind;

They eat their meals, and take their sport

Nor know who's in or out at court.

They never to the levee go

To treat, as dearest friend, a foe:

They never importune his grace,

Nor ever cringe to men in place:

Nor undertake a dirty job,

Nor draw the quill to write for Bob.

Fraught with invective, they ne'er go

To folks at Paternoster Row.

No judges, fiddlers, dancing-masters,

No pickpockets, or poetasters,

Are known to honest quadrupeds;

No single brute his fellow leads.

Brutes never meet in bloody fray,

Nor cut each other's throats for pay.

Of beasts, it is confess'd, the ape

Comes nearest us in human shape;

Like man, he imitates each fashion,

And malice is his lurking passion:

But, both in malice and grimaces,

A courtier any ape surpasses.

Behold him, humbly cringing, wait

Upon the minister of state;

View him soon after to inferiors

Aping the conduct of superiors;

He promises with equal air,

And to perform takes equal care.

He in his turn finds imitators,

At court, the porters, lacqueys, waiters,

Their masters' manner still contract,

And footmen, lords and dukes can act.

Thus, at the court, both great and small

Behave alike, for all ape all.

K-12 Reading Test, Fluency Drills, Fry's Phrases, Dolch List, RTI and CCSS Curriculum!

1st-2nd Grade Weekly Word Wall

Struggling Readers read less than ten pages per day that's about 2,000-4,000 words per day or 400,000 words for
the whole year!

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44 English Phonemes Charts The 44 English phonemes are the smallest basic sounds needed to articulate English correctly. The ability to manipulate, distinguish, decode, and make meaning from letters and words is the foundation of beginning literacy.

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Reading Sage: Grade K, 1, 2, 3, 4 Phonics Assessment The miracle comes when the alphabet, phonics, phonemic awareness, and grapheme's are synthesized into the ability to read. Give yourself a quick test: List all the English vowel phonemes and examples include all alternate ...

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Reading Sage: Word Work Grade 1, 2, 3, and 4 | Word Work Use the snakes and ladders game boards bellow with the word work flash cards to play a fun game that helps students' master Dolch sight words. A sight word is a word whose spelling is not straight forward and, therefore, ...

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Close Reading Strategies Close reading places great emphasis on the single particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. Close Reading ...

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Reading Sage: Fluency Passages Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 A fluency drill combined with a concise running record gives the teacher and students feedback whether materials being read are too easy, too difficult, or the reading rate impairs comprehension. Fluency passages with ...

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Word Lists for Fluency Practice

Sample Reading Fluency Drills all grades

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean

Treasure Island

Snow-White and Rose-Red

Alice in Wonderland

The Story that Wouldn't be Told

The Wind in the Willows

The legend of Sleepy Hallow

Macavity the Mystery Cat

Under the Lilacs

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Special Sounds

Hurry with my Food and Drink, Boy!

John Carter of Mars 6th Grade Fluency Drill With DOK Questions

Struggling Readers read less than ten
pages per day that's about 2,000-4,000
words per day, or 400,000 words for
the whole year!

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Clifford Sesame Street Sound Match
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Alphabet Book Game Organize the out of order books. .
Alphabet Whack-A-Mole Move the hammer around using the mouse to Whack the Moles.

Fluency is the foundation of reading comprehension. Students that read slowly have little to no recall. The five domains of reading are all important yet fluency is often a after thought. Focusing on fluency will directly impact on comprehension and recall.

1. Vocabulary:

The four types of vocabulary.

auditory,

spoken,

reading,
writing

2. Phonemic Awareness: is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. Separating the spoken word "cat" into three distinct phonemes, /k/, /æ/, and /t/, requires phonemic awareness.

3. Phonics : refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write that language. Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g., that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck, ch, or q spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words.

4. Fluency: is the ability to read text accurately and quickly. Fluency bridges word decoding and comprehension. Comprehension is understanding what has been read. Fluency is a set of skills that allows readers to rapidly decode text while maintaining a high level of comprehension (National Reading Panel, 2001).

5. Reading Comprehension: is defined as the level of understanding of a writing

Students learn to read about 300-1000 words per year!

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Repeated reading and rereading of vocabulary controlled materials

Student reads the same material a number of times per day
One minute drills range from a Lexile of 500 to 1100 for
intermediate students, and 150 to 450 for primary students.

General procedure
• Raw-timing (one, five, ten minutes) New Passages
• Practice rereading of controlled material to increase fluency
• Hot-timing (one, five, ten, twenty, up to sixty-minute timing for endurance)

Coupled with the following immediate interventions
Modeling done by teacher, and peers

Peer to Peer Administering of Running Records to Speed Evaluation
Students self-monitoring of progress through graphing wpm rate on fluency charts

Sample 6th Grade Fluency Drill

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne The Nautilus
One | Two Minute Fluency Drill

CAPTAIN NEMO stood up. I followed him. Contrived at the rear of the dining room, a double door opened, and I entered a room whose dimensions equaled the one I had just left. CWPM 33

It was a library. Tall, black–rosewood bookcases, inlaid with copper work, held on their wide shelves a large number of uniformly bound books. These furnishings followed the contours of the room, their lower parts leading to huge couches upholstered in maroon leather and curved for maximum comfort. Light, movable reading stands, which could be pushed away or pulled near as desired, allowed books to be positioned on them for easy study. In the center stood a huge table covered with pamphlets, among which some newspapers, long out of date, were visible. Electric light flooded this whole harmonious totality, falling from four frosted half globes set in the scroll-work of the ceiling. I stared in genuine wonderment at this room so ingeniously laid out, and I couldn't believe my eyes. CWPM 163

"Captain Nemo," I told my host, who had just stretched out on a couch, "this is a library that would do credit to more than one continental palace, and I truly marvel to think it can go with you into the deepest seas." CWPM 206

"Where could one find greater silence or solitude, professor?" Captain Nemo replied. "Did your study at the museum afford you such a perfect retreat?"
"No, sir, and I might add that it's quite a humble one next to yours. You own 6,000 or 7,000 volumes here . . ." CWPM 255

"12,000, Professor Aronnax. They're my sole remaining ties with dry land. But I was done with the shore the day my Nautilus submerged for the first time under the waters. That day I purchased my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last newspapers, and ever since I've chosen to believe that humanity no longer thinks or writes. In any event, professor, these books are at your disposal, and you may use them freely." CWPM 330

I thanked Captain Nemo and approached the shelves of this library. Written in every language, books on science, ethics, and literature were there in abundance, but I didn't see a single work on economics—they seemed to be strictly banned on board. One odd detail: all these books were shelved indiscriminately without regard to the language in which they were written, and this jumble proved that the Nautilus's captain could read fluently whatever volumes he chanced to pick up. CWPM 410

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Vocabulary Glossary
Abundance noun
an amount that is more than ample; very plentiful quantity.
There was an abundance of food at the Thanksgiving dinner.

Continental adjective
(usually capitalized) of, related to, or similar to the mainland European culture, customs, or the like.

Contour noun
the outline of a surface, form, or figure; shape.
the contours of the land

contrived adjective
planned or artificial, especially in an obvious way; not spontaneous.
The ending of the play was too contrived.

Dimension noun
size as measured in height, width, or depth.
The potential buyers asked about the dimensions of the living room.

Disposal noun
authority to control or direct someone or something.
We are at your disposal.

Ethics plural noun
the branch of philosophy that deals with values pertaining to human conduct, such as good and bad or right and wrong actions and motives; moral philosophy.

Indiscriminate adjective
not planned or organized; haphazard or jumbled.

Pamphlet noun
a short printed publication that is unbound or has a paper binding, often written to inform on some topic or to address a controversial public issue. Pamphlets were being distributed all over campus.

Submerge intransitive verb
to sink or plunge under, or as though under, water.
The submarine submerged rapidly.
The scuba diver submerged and did not return to the surface for several minutes.

Volume noun
a collection of pages of writing or print bound together; book.
Our public library has thousands of volumes.

One Minute Timed Fluency Test 4th grade

3.9 RL Lexile 675
Snow-white and Rose-red

1. There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of
the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which
bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who were like
the two rose-trees, and one was called Snow-white, and the other Rose-red.
They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two
children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle
than Rose-red. Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and
fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at
home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to
her when there was nothing to do. 124 WPM

2. The two children were so fond of one another that they always held
each other by the hand when they went out together, and when Snow-white
said: 'We will not leave each other,' Rose-red answered: 'Never so
long as we live,' and their mother would add: 'What one has she must
share with the other.' 182 WPM

More Sample Fluency Drills

One Minute Timed Fluency Test 4th grade
Reading Level 9.8

1. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and
of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister
was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use
of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?” 57 WPM

2. So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot
day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a
daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies,
when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. 114 WPM

3. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very
much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall
be too late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she
ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but
when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked
at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind
that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a
watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering
how in the world she was to get out again. 278 WPM

Grade Level Fluency Goals

1st Grade 80 Words Correct Per Minute
2nd 140 WCPM
3rd 160
4th 180
5th 195
6th 205
7th 210
8th 215


Fluency Drills 1st Grade

Ned has fed the hen.

She is a black hen.

She has left the nest.

See the eggs in the nest! 21

Will the hen let Ned get them?

Let me get the black hen. 35

Now Ned has it in his hand,

and he is a big man.

Nat, see the big man

with his black hat. 58

Ned is on the box.

He has a pen in his hand.

A big fat rat is in the box.

Can the dog catch the fat rat?86

Come with me, Ann,

and see the man with

a black hat on his head.101

The fat hen has left the nest.

Run, Nat, and get the eggs. 114

VOCABULARY LESSON

head he Nat come with and on

pat catch has left hat can

black eggs Rab Ann fed get

Fluency Drill 1st Grade

Do you see Nell?

Yes; she has a pan with some eggs in it.
Let me have the pan and the eggs, will you, Nell?
Has the black hen left the nest?
I will now run to catch Rob. Will you run, too? 43

Oh Ben! let me get in, will you?
Yes, if you will sit still.
Stand still, Jill, and let Ann get in.
Now, Ben, hand me the whip.
Get up, Jill!75

Kitty has a nice pet. It can sing a sweet song.
She has just fed it.
She will now put it in the cage,
and hang the cage up. Then the cat can
not catch it. 111

Look at Tom and his dog.
The dog has a black spot on his back.
Do you think he is a good dog?
Tom has a big top, too. It is on the box with Kitty's doll. 149

Fluency Drill 1st Grade

The sun is up.

The man has fed the black hen and the fat duck.
Now the duck will swim in the pond. The hen has run to her nest.
Let us not stop at the pond now, for it is hot.
See how still it is! We will go to see Tom and his top. 52

O John! the sun has just set. It is not hot, now.
Let us run and jump. I think it is fun to run, and skip, and jump.
See the duck on the pond! Her nest is up on the bank, under the rock.
We must not touch the nest, but we may look at it. 109

The sun has set, and the pond is still.
John, Ned, Ben, Tom, and Nell stand on the bank, and look at the duck.
The dog with a black spot on his back, is with Tom. See! Tom has his hat
in his hand. He has left his big top on the box.
Kitty's doll is on the rock. Nell has put her pet in the cage. It will
sing a sweet song. The duck has her nest under the rock. 191

It is not hot now. Let us run, and skip, and jump on the bank. Do you not
think it is fun? 214

Kate has gone to play with Mary and James.
They are all in the shade, now, by the brook.
James digs in the soft sand with his spade, and Mary picks up little
stones and puts them in her lap. James and Mary are glad to see Kate.

She will help them pick up stones and dig, by the little brook. 52

"What shall we do?" said Mary to James. "I do not like to sit still. Shall
we hunt for eggs in the barn?" "No" said James; "I like to play on the grass.

Will not papa let us catch Prince, and go to the big woods?"
"We can put the tent in the cart, and go to some nice spot where the grass
is soft and sweet." "That will be fine," said Kate. "I will get my doll,

and give her a ride with us." 138

"Yes," said James, "and we will get mamma to go, too. She will hang up a
swing for us in the shade." "I will get my kite, and see it fly.
This is a fine day. The sun shines bright. There is a good wind,

and my kite flies high. I can just see it. The sun shines in my eyes;

I will stand in the shade of this high fence.

Why, here comes my dog! He was under the cart. Did you see him there?
What a good time we have had! Are you not glad that we did not go to the woods with James? 246

More Teacher Made Fluency Drills Grade 3, 4, 5 and 6

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. He was born into slavery during the America Ci8vil wart in Missouri a year before the end of the war. CWPM 31

When George Washington Carver was only a week old, George, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. George's brother, James, was rushed to safety from the kidnappers. The kidnappers sold the slaves in Kentucky. Moses Carver hired John Bentley to find them, but he located only the infant George. Moses negotiated with the raiders to gain the boy's return. and rewarded Bentley. CWPM 99

After slavery was abolished, Moses Carver and his wife Susan raised George and his older brother James as their own children. They encouraged George to continue his love of learning and reading, and his "Auntie Susan" taught him the basics of reading and writing that he turned into a lifelong passion of learning. CWPM 147

African American people were not allowed to go to white only public schools in Diamond Grove. The nearest segregated school for African American children was 10 miles away in Neosho, George decided to go there to continue his education. When he reached the town, he found the school closed for the night. He slept in a nearby barn. By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room. When he identified himself as "Carver's George," as he had done his whole life, she replied that from now on his name was "George Carver". George liked this lady very much, and her words, "You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people", made a great impression on him. CWPM 286

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Fluency Drill 1st Grade

Oh Kate!
The old cow is in the pond: see her drink!
Will she not come out to get some grass?
No, Tom, she likes to be in the pond. See how still she stands!
The dear old cow gives us sweet milk to drink. 43

Papa, will you let me ride with you on Prince? I will sit still in your arms.
See, mamma! We are both on Prince. How large he is!
Get up, Prince! You are not too fat to trot as far as the barn.
Did you call us, mamma? 92

I went with Tom to the pond. I had my doll, and Tom had his flag.
The fat duck swam to the bank, and we fed her.
Did you think we might fall into the pond?
We did not go too near, did we, Tom?
May we go to the swing, now, mamma? 148

John Carter: A Prisoner
Reading Practice Passage

We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly.
We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the edge of one of Mars'
long-dead seas, in the bottom of which my encounter with the Martians
had taken place. WCPM 44

In a short time we gained the foot of the mountains, and after traversing
a narrow gorge came to an open valley, at the far extremity of which
was a low table land upon which I beheld an enormous city. Toward this
we galloped, entering it by what appeared to be a ruined roadway leading
out from the city, but only to the edge of the table land, where it
ended abruptly in a flight of broad steps. WCPM 125

Upon closer observation I saw as we passed them that the buildings
were deserted, and while not greatly decayed had the appearance of not
having been tenanted for years, possibly for ages. Toward the center of
the city was a large plaza, and upon this and in the buildings immediately
surrounding it were camped some nine or ten hundred creatures of
the same breed as my captors, for such I now considered them despite
the suave manner in which I had been trapped. WCPM 209

With the exception of their ornaments all were unclothed. The women varied
in appearance but little from the men, except that their tusks were
much larger in proportion to their height, in some instances curving
nearly to their high-set ears. Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color,
and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely
lacking among the males. The adult females ranged in height from
ten to twelve feet. WCPM 289

What was the state of the dwellings in the city, particularly the state of habitation?
A. The dwellings seem to have recent tenants.
B. The dwellings are inhabited and in pristine condition.
C. The city is slightly damaged with no apparent habitation.

John Carter: My Advent on Mars
Reading Practice Passage
I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was
on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I
was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told
me as plainly that I was upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that
you are upon Earth. You do not question the fact; neither did I.
I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, moss-like vegetation
which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. I
seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of
which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills. WCPM 115

It was midday, the sun was shining full upon me and the heat of it was
rather intense upon my unclothed body, yet no greater than would have
been true under similar conditions on an Arizona desert. Here and there
were slight outcroppings of quartz-bearing rock which glistened in the
sunlight; and a little to my left, perhaps a hundred yards, appeared a
low, walled enclosure about four feet in height. No water, and no other
vegetation than the moss was in evidence, and as I was somewhat thirsty
I determined to do a little exploring. WCPM 212

Springing to my feet I received my first Martian surprise, for the effort,
which on Earth would have brought me standing upright, carried me into
the Martian air to the height of about three yards. I alighted softly
upon the ground, however, without appreciable shock or jar. Now commenced
a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the
extreme. I found that I must learn to walk all over again, as the muscular
exertion which carried me easily and safely upon Earth played strange
antics with me upon Mars. WCPM 303

The terrain is similar to the Arizona Desert in what way?
A. The rocks are shimmering and covered with moss.
B. The terrain is arid and hot with no deciduous flora.
C. The land looks like Arizona with cacti and large rock outcroppings.

READING Lessons

The Logicians Refuted

Fluency Drills 1st Grade

Fluency Drill 1st Grade

Do you see Nell?

Fluency Drill 1st Grade

The sun is up.

Fluency Drill 1st Grade