🔤 Foundational Skills: Reading Fluency (Grade 3)

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Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression.

1. Read aloud three times with expression: ““Hurry!” shouted Maya. “The bus is leaving without us!””

2. Read aloud three times with expression: “The fox trotted through the snowy field, leaving neat little tracks behind him.”

3. Read aloud three times with expression: “When the storm passed, the whole sky glowed orange and pink.”

4. Read aloud three times with expression: “Deep in the ocean, strange fish glow like tiny lanterns in the dark.”

Answer key: 1) fluency practice · 2) fluency practice · 3) fluency practice · 4) fluency practice

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Free Grade 3 English worksheet (Common Core RF.3.4.b): read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression. Skill: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression. Level: Grade 3 — also suits Year 4 (UK).

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CCSS RF.3.4.b: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression.

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