🔤 Foundational Skills: Fluency Practice (Grade 5)

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

1. Read three times; record words per minute: “The lake was so still it looked like a sheet of glass, and Theo wanted to remember every inch of it.”

2. Read three times; record words per minute: “Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they are home to a quarter of ocean species.”

3. Read three times; record words per minute: ““They aren’t failures,” she said. “They’re maps.””

4. Read three times; record words per minute: “Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly south to the mountains of Mexico.”

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

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About this grade 5 worksheet

Free Grade 5 English worksheet (Common Core RF.5.4.b): read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression. Skill: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, rate and expression. Level: Grade 5 — also suits Year 6 (UK).

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CCSS RF.5.4.b: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, 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, rate and expression.

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