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Contents Introduction
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Fluency: An Overview ........................................................................................ 5
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How Does Fluency Develop?
Where Does Vocabulary Fit In? .......................................................................... 8 Enhancing Comprehension .............................................................................. 8
Assessing Fluency ............................................................................................ 9
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Teacher Checklist and Rubric for Oral Reading Fluency Student Checklist for Self-Assessment
Using the Mini-Books to Enhance Fluency ............................................................ 12 A Fluency Mini-Lesson
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Mini-Book Readability Scores .......................................................................... 14 Preparing for Difficult or Unfamiliar Text
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Activities for Building Fluency .......................................................................... 16 How to Make the Mini-Books
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Resources for Reading Fluency and Comprehension ................................................ 19
.............................................................................................. 21 Meeting George Washington .......................................................................... 21 Franklin’s Fractions ...................................................................................... 25 What Simple Machines Are These? .................................................................. 29 Under the Bridge ........................................................................................ 33 How Do Animals Sleep? ................................................................................ 37 The Other Side of the Sea .............................................................................. 41 The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey.................................................................... 45 The Day the Sun Didn’t Shine .......................................................................... 49 What’s the Matter? ...................................................................................... 53 Pass the Chips! ............................................................................................ 57 Tornado! .................................................................................................... 61 Man on the Moon ........................................................................................ 65
The Mini-Books
Born to Fly ................................................................................................ 69 A View From the Top .................................................................................... 73 Sal Fink
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INTRODUCTION s educators, we believe there is power inherent in the written word. It is the power of knowledge and interaction—the ability to convey what we mean and to be heard, the gift that brings others’ thoughts into our realm of understanding. It is our hope that the children in our care will learn to look to the written word for the same reasons we do—to answer questions, clarify learning, and exchange ideas. A relationship between readers and the text can come only from training and experience. To help unlock the meaning of language, we teach readers to apply sense to symbols. They learn to associate sounds with letters and then to combine letters to make words. Ultimately, they connect these words to make sense of what they are reading. They can answer questions such as “What is this story about?” and “What is the author telling me?” For some, this progression happens naturally. One day children are decoding single words and the next they are reading sentences, paragraphs, and chapters with ease. For others, each step comes with great effort, and success is not always at hand. They seek what the proficient readers have— and what all readers deserve: fluency.
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Fluency, the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression, is essential to comprehension, which is the primary goal of reading. Fluency comes with practice, and all readers must strive to achieve it. Readers who are already fluent, readers who are well on their way to being so, and those who are struggling to get there all must employ practice and patience to become confident, capable readers. Their skills may be different, but their goal is the same: They want to understand. This teaching resource,Fluency Practice Mini-Books: Grade, 3offers countless opportunities to build and strengthen your students’ ability to read with ease and confidence. It contains 15 mini-books on topics from core curricular areas, tied in with national standards at the third-grade level and presented as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose. It also offers tools for assessment, including a teacher checklist and rubric and a checklist students can use to monitor their own reading progress. (See Assessing Fluency, page 9.) The mini-books and accompanying activities target specific skills in fluency and phonics and aim to increase speed of word recognition as well as to improve decoding of expression, and, based ultimately, comprehension. The textaccuracy, adheres touse vocabulary standards on the studies of Harris and Jacobson. These standards ensure that your students 4
will encounter words within the first-grade reading vocabulary rather than those that might hinder their progress. The stories have been leveled using readability scores from the Lexile Framework for Reading (See chart, page 14.) These scores offer guidelines to help you select the stories that bestmatch the needs and reading levels of each student. The stories are ready for use topractice, strengthen, and assess skills in reading fluency. And they all share the same objective: to give students practice reading comfortably, confidently, and with enthusiasm, so that you can build an ever-growing flock of fluent readers within thewalls of your classroom.
Fluency: An Overview What Is Fluency? Fluency is the mark of a proficient reader. When a student reads text quickly, gets most of the words right, and uses appropriate expression and phrasing, we say that he or she has achieved fluency. Fluency frees readers from the struggle that slows them down. Hence, they are able to read for meaning and to understand. They can attend to the details of text, pausing as indicated and varying tone and pace to enhance comprehension for both themselves and potential listeners.
How Does Fluency Develop?
As with every skill worth developing, fluency sharpens with experience. Exposure to print, immersion in a rich linguistic environment, and practice, practice, practice all lead to fluent reading. From the emergent on up, readers must learn and apply tools to help them advance. The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) speaks of fluency as a skill in flux.
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“Fluency is not a stage of development at which readers can read all words quickly and easily. Fluency changes, depending on what readers are reading, their familiarity with the words, and the amount of their practice with reading text. Even very skilled readers may read in a slow, labored manner when reading texts with many unfamiliar words or topics.” (NIFL, 2001)
Readers are most comfortable (and most fluent) when reading what they have seen before or what they know most about. When venturing beyond that, they must rely on word attack skills, prior knowledge, and the host of tools that helped them advance previously.
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Ways to Build Fluency Two words encompass what readers require for the development of fluency:
exposure and practice. To foster fluent reading, be sure to: MODEL FLUENT READING.
Read aloud to students. As you read, model (and point out) aspects of fluent reading such as phrasing, pacing, and expression. Help students understand that people aren’t born knowing how to do this; they learn it by hearing it and trying it themselves.
PROVIDESTUDENTSWITH PLENTY OF READING PRACTICE.
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luency develops when children do lots of reading and writing—including lots of easy text. Repeated reading helps children develop fluency because with each reading their word identification becomes quicker and more automatic, freeing attention for expression, phrasing, and comprehension.
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Oral reading is highly tracking and the strengthening enables both the readereffective and thefor listener to hear reader and fluency. assess It progress, and it allows the listener to provide guidance as needed. Whisper reading serves as a transition from oral to silent reading. In whisper reading, all students read aloud at the same time, but at a volume that is just barely audible. The student is able to self-monitor and the teacher to move around the room, noting progress, keeping students on task, and offering guidance as needed. For silent reading, students read an assigned passage or a book of their own choice. Because the reader cannot be heard, assessment of reading skill is not possible. The value of silent reading is that it increases time spent reading and gives students “opportunities to expand and practice reading strategies.” (Fountas and Pinnell, 2001) SELECT APPROPRIATETEXT.
To develop fluency, a student must practice reading text at his or her independent reading level—the level at which he or she is able to accurately decode 96 to 100 percent of the words in a given text. This level varies for every student. By assessing each student’s reading level up front, you will be prepared to select appropriate texts and ensure that your students get a lot of practice reading at a level at which they achieve success. (Rasinski, 2003; Worthy and Broaddus, 2001/2002) For information about how to use text to assess fluency, see Assessing Fluency, page 9.
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Read aloud to students from text that is above their independent reading level, exposing them to new and more difficult words and concepts without the pressure of having to decode.
GIVE ROOM TO GROW.
To help a student adva nce in fluency, present text at his or her instructional level. This text can be read with 90 to 95 percent accuracy. With a little help, the student can get almost all the words right. (Blevins, 2001a; Rasinski, 2003)
PROVIDEDIRECT INSTRUCTION ANDFEEDBACK.
Prepare students before they read. First, review phonics skills they will need to decode words. Draw attention to sight words, root words, affixes, and word chunks. Pre-teach difficult or unfamiliar words. Demonstrate the use of intonation, phrasing, and expression, and tell children when they have done these well. Listen to children read, and offer praise as well as helpful tips for the next attempt.
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USE A VARIETY OF READING M ATERIALS.
Plays, fiction stories, nonfiction passages, and poetry offer a rich and varied reading experience. Expose your students to each of these. Give them many opportunities to get excited about and immerse themselves in what they are reading.
HIGHLIGHT PHRASING.
One of the most effective ways to help students who are struggling with fluency is to use phrase-cued text. Phrase-cued text is marked by slashes to indicate where readers should pause. One slash indicates a pause within a sentence. Two slashes indicate a longer pause at the end of a sentence. Ready-made samples of phrase-cued text are available (see Resources for Reading Fluency and Comprehension, page 19), but you can also How Do Animals Sleep? convert any passage of text to phrase-cued text Inside?// Outside?// Upside down?// by reading it aloud, Where/ and how/ do animals sleep?// listening for pauses, and drawing slashes in the Lights out!// Bats sleep/ in dark places,/ appropriate places. (See such as caves.// Bats hang/ upside down/ the example, right, from while sleeping.// They hold/ themselves in place/ the mini-book “How Do with strong claws.// Animals Sleep?,” page Treetops/ are tempting!// Birds make nests/ 37.) Model fluent reading in trees/ and sleep there.// Sometimes,/ with proper phrasing, birds sleep on a branch.// A sleeping bird/ and invite students to holds the branch tightly/ with its feet.// practice with the text you
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Bringing Oral Reading Into Your Classroom Provide opportunities for children to read aloud. This may include all or any of the following: INTERACTIVEREAD-ALOUD:
An adult reader demonstrates fluent oral reading and talks about how he or she changes tone, pace, or expression in response to the story. Students enjoy a dramatic reading and absorb skills in fluent reading. In addition, the interactive read-aloud provides an opportunity for teachers to ask open-ended questions before, during, and after the reading, soliciting students’ prior knowledge and extending their understanding, comprehension, and connection with the topic. This connection can advance student interaction with the text and promote optimal conditions for fluency.
SHARED READING:
An adult reader models fluent reading and then invites children to read along, using big books or small-group instruction. 7
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An adult and children read aloud together. This activity works especially well with poetry and cumulative tales.
ECHO READING:
A child repeats phrases or sentences read by someone else, mimicking tone, expression, and pacing.
REPEATEDREADING:
An adult reads aloud while a student listens and reads again while the student follows along. Then the adult invites the student to read along, and, finally, the student reads the same text aloud alone. This technique is most helpful for struggling readers.
PAIRED REPEATEDREADING:
s the child “ approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the whole or partly revealed story can provide some guide for a fluent reading. He will understand what he reads if it refers to things he knows about, or has read about previously, so that he is familiar with the topic, the vocabulary or the story itself.
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matching with readers readers with thoseabove-level below level.readers Partners areon-level encouraged to and take on-level turns reading aloud to each other, each reading a short passage three times and then getting feedback. The manner of grouping provides every struggling reader with a more proficient reader to model. READERS’ THEATER:
Students work in groups to rehearse and perform a brief play before the class. Performing can be exciting, and the drive to present well can be a powerful force behind mastering fluency in reading and speech, motivating both struggling and proficient readers.
TAPE-ASSISTEDREADING:
Children listen to books-on-tape while reading along in a book. (Consider recording your own tapes if commercially made tapes go too quickly, or if the tapes include background elements such as music or sound effects, which can be distracting.) Children can also listen and critique their own reading on tape.
PHRASE-CUED TEXT:
(See Highlight Phrasing, page 7.)
Where Does Vocabulary Fit In? Stumbling over the words constitutes one of the main setbacks on the way to fluency. It remains in your students’ best interest, then, to grow familiar with words they will likely encounter in reading. Cunningham and Allington (2003) urge active use of word walls, inviting student participation in choosing words to put on the walls, eliminating words hardly used, and reviewing the list words daily.
Enhancing Comprehension In all reading instruction, it is important to remember that reading imparts meaning, and so the fundamental goal of reading is to comprehend. All other instruction—phonics, phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination— is wasted effort if comprehension gets lost in the process. Consequently, those who find no purpose or meaning in the written word will soon lose interest in reading altogether. Avoid this by teaching your students strategies to enhance comprehension. Help them learn to question the text they are reading.What is the message?
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Does it make sense to them? Do they know what it means?Find out by asking questions. Ask questions before students read, to prepare them for the story. Ask as they read, to deepen their understanding of the text. Ask additional questions after they read, to clear up any comprehension issues and summarize the story. Teach your students to formulate questions of their own to give them a vested interest in what they are reading.
Assessing Fluency There are two ways to assess a student’s progress in fluency: informally and formally. Informal assessment involves listening to students read aloud, noting how easily, quickly, and accurately they read and deciding how well they attend to phrasing, expression, and other elements. Formal assessment involves timing a student’s oral reading to create a tangible record of his or her progress throughout the school year. To conduct an informal assessment of students’ reading fluency, use the reproducible Teacher Checklist and Rubric for Oral Reading Fluency, on page 10. Have a student read aloud for five to seven minutes while you note on the form the strategies the student uses as well as his or her reading strengths and difficulties. Students can monitor their own progress using the Student Checklist for Self-Assessment, on page 11. Photocopy and laminate one for each student. Review the checklist components with students many times, until they understand the purpose of the checklist and the meaning of each sentence. Encourage students to mentally complete the checklist from time to time to track their own reading fluency. To carry out timed repeated reading, select a passage of text (150–250 words) that is at the student’s independent reading level and that he or she has never read before. Have the student read aloud the passage for one minute. Track your own copy of the text while he or she reads, marking words omitted or pronounced incorrectly. Count the number of words the student read correctly. Then give the student three one-minute opportunities (in separate sessions) to read the same text, and average the scores to obtain his or her oral reading fluency rate.*
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Does fluency instruction work? Research has shown that concentrated reading instruction can dramatically improve reading comprehension and fluency, which in turn affect academic performance, self-esteem, and overall achievement. With this in mind, it is not only helpful to instruct with an
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Teacher Checklist and Rubric for Oral Reading Fluency Oral Reading Checklist Usually
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Oral Reading Rubric
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The child reads primarily in meaningful phrases. The child attends to most punctuation and usually reads at a smooth pace, but sometimes struggles with words or sentence structure. The child often self-corrects but does not always recognize errors. The child reads with expression and attempts to pronounce unfamiliar words, but sometimes needs assistance.
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Fluency Practice Mini-Books: Grade 3 Scholastic Teaching Resources
STUDENT CHECKLIST
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Adapted from 35 Rubrics & Checklists to Assess Reading and Writingby Adele Fiderer. Scholastic, 1998. Permission to reuse granted by the author.
Fluency Practice Mini-Books: Grade 3 Scholastic Teaching Resources
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Using the Mini-Books to Enhance Fluency A Fluency Mini-Lesson li
Use this sample mini-lesson as a model for using the mini-books to strengthen and assess students’ reading fluency.
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Pre-Reading 1. Introduce unfamiliar or difficult words that students willcome across in the text.
These might include Franklin, Walter William, fractions, three-quarter, slices, onethird, separately, and notice as well as some of the sight words:idea’sand might. Help students decode the words. Review themseveral times to aid recognition and boost fluency. (See Preparing for Difficult or Unfamiliar Text, page 15, for more about the vocabulary in the mini-books.) 2. Review reading techniques that promote fluency, such as reading from left to
right, “smooshing” words together to sound like talking, and crossing the page with a steady, sweeping eye movement. (Blevins, 2001a)
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“Listen while I reread the words ‘Come on in!’ What did I do with my voice to make those words sound cheerful? What did I see in the sentence that told me to do that?” (exclamation point) “ Walter William Franklin hung a sign outside his door. “Come on in!” the sign said. “I sell fractions in my store!”
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questions read without the appropriate tone sound flat and stilted, without depth, character, or expression. 3. Read the story aloud again, inviting students to read aloud with “Want “ a three-quarter pizza? Let me turn the oven on. This one had eight slices. See? Now two of them are gone.” ”
“ “Here I have a cupcake. Notice how’ it’s cut in two? ’ I’ll sell each half separately. That is what I do.” ”
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emphasize aspects of phonics and vocabulary that will increase their understanding of language; encourage faster, more accurate reading; and deepen comprehension. (You may want to write the story on sentence strips and use a pocket chart to manipulate words and phrases.) “Franklin’s Fractions” presents opportunities to explore such topics as:
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quantitative words: three-quarter, two, eight, half, one dollar,
half-price, one-third, quarters. Have students put a dot under all the number words in the mini-book.
“ “I give change in fractions, ” too,” said Walter “William. “See? If” you “pay four quarters, you” might get one back “ from me.” ”
“I am selling lemonade for less. Now, have you heard? Three“ cups for one”dollar “ that one cup is one-third!”” means
phrasing: Readers must pause after all ending punctuation. They will pause ever so briefly after each comma, as in the sentence “If you pay four quarters, you might get one back from me.”
dialogue: Help readers practice using clues in punctuation, text
placement, and vocabulary to determine who is speaking and when. Point out that each time a character speaks, the words that he or she says are contained within quotation marks. An indented paragraph indicates that a new speaker is talking. Dialogue words such as “said” and “cried” highlight who is speaking.
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5. The methods described here feature shared reading and Reader’s “Franklin’s Fractions!” people said. “The idea’s rather nice! Now you need to run a sale and offer things half-price!”
Theater. Other options for use with this mini-book include timed reading for assessment of each child’s rate of fluency, paired repeated reading, and choral reading.
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Fluency techniques such as echo reading work well with stories containing repetitive or rhythmic text, which naturally lead the reader to pause in the middle of a sentence rather than strictly at the end. This method gives students the opportunity to step in and participate in theoforal “Under the examples Bridge,” page 33,text. and “The Other Side the reading. Sea,” page 41, offer of such
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Mini-Book Readability Scores The chart below shows the readability scores of the stories in this collection. The texts were leveled using the Lexile Framework for Reading. These scores offer guidelines to help you select the stories that best match the needs and reading levels of each student. For more information about the Lexile Framework, go to www.lexile.com. (See Preparing for Difficult or Unfamiliar Text, page 15, for more about the vocabulary in the mini-books.)
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Meeting George Washington
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Franklin’s Fractions
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What Simple Machines Are These?
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Under the Bridge
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How Do Animals Sleep?
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The Other Side of the Sea
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The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
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The Day the Sun Didn’t Shine
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What’s the Matter?
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Pass the Chips!
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Tornado!
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Man on the Moon
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Born to Fly
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A View From the Top
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Sal Fink
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A Lexile Score of 350 to 550is appropriate for the third-grade independent reading level.
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Preparing for Difficult or Unfamiliar Text To assess fluency, have children read text that is new to them. (Blevins, 2001a) With this in mind, when using the mini-books for assessment, do not prepare students by introducing unfamiliar or difficult words. Pre-reading may distort the assessment results. Before reading for the purpose of developing fluency, however, it is helpful to highlight words that may prove to be stumbling blocks for young or struggling readers. Words slightly above grade level, difficult words on grade level, and complex high-frequency words can be daunting when encountered for the first time within text. To prevent this, introduce words and help children decode them before they read. Give them a chance to decipher the words before you provide correct pronunciation. Then review the words several times to aid recognition and boost fluency. The words listed below may be unfamiliar or challenging to your students. Some are within the common third grade vocabulary but may contain difficult or unfamiliar letter patterns. Others have been categorized as common to text read by slightly older readers. (Harris and Jacobson, 1982) These words were selected for use in the mini-books when necessary to enhance the flow of the text or where substitutions would not carry the same meaning, such as the words inclined and pulley in “What Simple Machines Are These?,” page 29. Note that proper nouns are excluded from leveling.
Meeting George Washington George Washington, dizzy, general, impatient, Delaware
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey switched, village, selfish, shame
Man on the Moon astronauts, Columbia, Eagle, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong,
River, British, soldiers Franklin’s Fractions Walter William Franklin, fractions, three-quarter, slices, one-third
The Day the Sun Didn’t Shine complained, hedgehog, headache, sliver, moonlight, shone, snorted, impossible, huddled, petals, glared, remarked
Buzz Aldrin, mankind, collected, soil, samples, heroes, American
What Simple Machines Are These? attention, Mr. Barlow, clues, simple, Jules, Carlos, Marla, stroller, ramp, inclined, pulleys, lever Under the Bridge meadow, wooden, troll, waded, lonely How Do Animals Sleep? claws, tempting, bunches, fluffy The Other Side of the Sea America, sprays, uneasy, symbol, freedom, Statue, Liberty, graceful, Ellis Island
What’s the Matter? Professor, tuna, students, Michelle, Shiro, Tori, bonus, solid, liquid, boils, steam, vapor, temperature, challenge Pass the Chips! restaurant, chef, batch, Saratoga Chips, Saratoga Springs, menu Tornado! tornado, Oklahoma, trailers, destroys, underground, littered, tractors
Born to Fly Amelia Earhart, Canary, flight, license, received, phone, Captain H. H. Railey, Atlantic, passenger, Hawaii, Washington, sixty-six, courage, skill A View From the Top Meg Lowman, treetops, rainforest, scientist, affect, steel, harness, sting, poison, thorny, collects Sal Fink Mike Fink, riverboat, Mississippi, Ohio, roughest, toughest, Sal Fink, alligators, upstream, wrestled, pirates, coyote
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Activities for Building Fluency
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Emphasize the impact of ending punctuation. Model and then invite students to say the same sentence three different ways, using a period, a question mark, and an exclamation point. For example, from “What’s the Matter?,” page 53, you might read the sentence “You solved my bonus questions!” as follows:
“You solved my bonus questions.”
“You solved my bonus questions?”
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Dabble in Dialogue Use a mini-book filled with conversation, such as “What Simple Machines Are These?,” page 29, or “The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey,” page 45, to draw attention to using dialogue to represent each character’s unique personality. For example, when reading aloud “What Simple Machines Are These?,” purposely model distinct voices for Mr. Barlow, Jules, Carlos, and Marla. Discuss the ways you change inflection, and toneyou to represent character. Mr. Barlowaccent, speaks,pace, for example, may wanteach to talk slowly When and carefully. For Marla, you may choose to speak more quickly and in a higher-pitched voice. Each person’s speech will hold its own distinct sound; repeat it each time that character speaks. Point out your intentions to your students, and encourage them to create their own unique voices for characters—in this mini-book and in trade books they read aloud. In addition, use oral reading to demonstrate the ways speech can reflect emotion. The dialogue in “The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey,” provides a particularly good opportunity for this; the scorn and criticism of the passersby can be conveyed through pitch (how high or low), tone (nature of expression), and pace (degree of speed) throughout the story, ending with the old man’s quiet wisdom.
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homonyms
word families
plurals
rhyme
prefixes and suffixes
syllabication
Tap Into Highlighting Tape Use colorful highlighting tape to flag words previously introduced as well as to mark the beginning and end of text children will be expected to read. Students can also use highlighting tape to emphasize repetitive phrases, rhyming words, sight words, and word chunks, as well as to mark dialogue for Readers’ Theater.
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Pull Out a Pocket Chart Use a pocket chart to reinforce pacing, intonation, chunking, and other aspects of fluent reading. Focus on one mini-book and one skill at a time. For example, to guide children in reading smoothly instead of word by word, determine where natural phrasing groups words together, such as “The man walked” in the sentence “The man walked while his son rode” (from the mini-book “The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey,” page 45). Write each word on its own strip, and place these words in order on the chart. Read aloud the words, separately at first, and then blending, or “smooshing,” them together. (Blevins, 2001a) Next, substitute the individual words for a larger strip featuring the words in a group rather than individually. (Example: “The man walked” would be a natural word group.) Invite children to manipulate sentences on the pocket chart, writing whole sentences on strips and then cutting them apart to show natural groupings.
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How to Make the Mini-Books the mini-book pages to be copied, tearing along the perforation.
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Page 7
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If your machine does not have a doublesided function, make copies of the title page and page 7 first. Place this copy in the machine’s paper tray. Then make a test copy of the second page (pages 1 and 6) to be sure that it copies onto the back of the title page and page 7.
Title Page
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you have double-sided copies of the pages, place page 2 behind the title page.
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8 1/2- by 11-inch copy paper.
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each book, make a doublesided copy of the pages on
Photocopying Tips
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2. For
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Alternatively, you can simple photocopy single-sided copies of each page, cut apart the mini-book pages, and stack them together in order, with the title page on top. Then staple the pages together along the book’s spine.
4. Fold
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Check to be sure that the pages are in proper order, and then staple them together along the book’s spine.
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Resources for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Armbruster, Bonnie B., Ph.D., Fran Lehr, M.A., and Jean Osborn, M.Ed., A Child Becomes a Reader. (RMC Research Corporation/Partnership for Reading: National Institute for Literacy, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003). Beck, Isabel L., Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan. Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. New York: The Guilford Press, 2002. Blevins, Wiley. Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success. New York: Scholastic, 2001a.* Blevins, Wiley. Teaching Phonics and Word Study. New York: Scholastic, 2001b. Clay, Marie M. Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991. Cunningham, Patricia M., Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005. Cunningham, Patricia M., and Richard L. Allington. Classrooms That Work: They Can ALL Read and Write. New York: Pearson Education, 2003. Cunningham, Patricia M., Dorothy P. Hall, and Cheryl M. Sigmon.The Teacher’s Guide to the Four Blocks. Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa, 1999. Fiderer, Adele. 40 Rubrics & Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Fiderer, Adele. 35 Rubrics & Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing. New York: Scholastic, 1998.
Fluency Formula: Grades 1–6. New York: Scholastic, 2003.* Fountas, Irene C., and Gay Su Pinnell. Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades . Portsmouth, 3–6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy NH: Heinemann, 2001. Fresch, Mary Jo, and Aileen Wheaton. Teaching and Assessing Spelling. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Harris, A. J., and M. D. Jacobson.Basic Reading Vocabularies. New York: Macmillan, 1982. Heilman, Arthur W. Phonics in Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2002. 19
Kieff, Judith. “Revisiting the Read-Aloud.” Childhood Education. Volume 80, No. 1, p. 28. Lyon, G. R., J. M. Fletcher, S. E. Shaywitz, B. A. Shaywitz, J. K. Torgesen, F. B. Wood, A. Shulte, and R. Olson. “Rethinking LearningDisabilities.” In C. E. Finn, R. A. J. Rotherham, and C. R. Hokanson (Eds.), Rethinking Special Education for a New Century. Washington, D.C.: Thomas B. Fordham Foundation &Progressive Policy Institute, 2001, pp. 259–287. Lyon, G. Reid. “Why Reading Is Not a Natural Process.”Educational Leadership, Volume 55, No. 6 (March 1998): pp. 14–18. Lyon, G. Reid, and Vinita Chhabra. “The Science of Reading Research.” Educational Leadership, Volume 61, No. 6 (March 2004): pp. 12–17. Pennington, Mark. Better Spelling in 5 Minutes a Day. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2001. Pinnell, Gay Su, and Patricia L. Scharer.Teaching for Comprehension in Reading. New York: Scholastic, 2003.* Rasinski, Timothy. “Creating Fluent Readers.” Educational Leadership, Volume 61, No. 6 (March 2004): pp. 46–51. Rasinski, Timothy V. The Fluent Reader. New York: Scholastic, 2003.* Tomlinson, Carol Ann. The Differentiated Classroom. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1999. Torgesen, J. K. “The Prevention of Reading Difficulties.” Journal of School Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 7–26. Wagstaff, Janiel M. Teaching Reading and Writing With Word Walls. New York: Scholastic, 1999. White, Sheida. “Listening to Children Read Aloud: Oral Fluency.” NAEP Facts, National Center for Education Statistics. Volume 1, Number 1. Worthy, Jo, and Karen Broaddus. “Fluency Beyond the Primary Grades: From Group Performance to Silent, Independent Reading.” The Reading Teacher, Volume 55, No. 4, (December 2001/January 2002): pp. 334–343. Worthy, Jo, and Kathryn Prater. “I Thought About It All Night: Readers Theatre for Reading Fluency and Motivation (The Intermediate Grades).” The Reading Teacher, Volume 56, No. 3 (November 2002): p. 294. Yopp, Hallie Kay, and Ruth Helen Yopp. “Supporting Phonemic Awareness Development in the Classroom.”The Reading Teacher, Volume 54, No. 2 (October 2000): pp. 130–143. * This resource includes samples and/or examples of phrase-cued text. 20
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T h a t is w h a t I d o .”
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C h o o se a n e n d . J u st o n e !
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“ S it u p o n a se e sa w .
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E a sy lfi t, I h o p e !”
b e si d e th e lcu e .
S h e w ro t e “ in cl in e d p l a n ” e o n th e l in e
P u ll th e ro p e o ve r a w h e e l.
T ie it to a ro p e .
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fo n u d th e t ro l.l H e lo o ke d s a d a n d l o n e ly .
a n d w a d e d th ro u g h th e w a te r. T h r e th e y
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fo th e b ri d g e . A g a in , th e y ca le l d
a cr o ss it fi w e ch o o s e .”
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“ T h is lit tl e b ri d g e si o u r sto u se . W e ll’ w a lk
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m y m o th e r, m y fa th e r,
w tih o u r b a kcs
W e st a n d o n th to d t e e h e ck s e a :
W e h a ve co m e a lo n g w a y.
O u r e ye s fi ll w tih t e a rs .
th e l a d y in ro b e s s e e m s t o s a y.
“ W e cl o m e ”!
s ce a f e h t o t e v a w e W
. g n o l o s r o f d ve lo e ’v e w
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g o o d j o b s fo r g o d o p a y.
W e w a n t b e tt e r liv e s a n d
W e ’r e o n o u r w a y.
W e ’r e o ff t o A m
si ck th e w h o l e tr i p .
T h e u n e a sy ri d e m a ke s u s
a n d w i n d ro ck s th e sh i p .
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ri ce a .
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o n th e d o n k e y’ s b a ck .
h T e m a n a n d h is so n fe tl s a d fo rt h e ri l o ss .
O n h e a ri n g th is , t h e m a n p u t h is so n
T h n e it g o t u p a n d r a n o ff .
“ F o o ls ! D o n ke ys a re t o r id e o n ”!
to m a kre t. A fa rm e r w a l ke d b y a n d sa id ,
ki c ke d it s fe e t fr e e a n d fe ll t o t h e
in to th e b u sy m a rk e t. J u st t h e n , t h e d o n k e y
r g o u n d .
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to d o . S o th e y g o t o ff th e d o n k e y.
S o t h e m a n p u ll e d h is o n u p o n to
T h e m a n a n d h si s o n d id n o t kn w o w h a t
w a kl w h ile h e re st s ”.
th e y cr i e d . “ T h a t m a n a m ke s h is p o o r so n
ca ry su c h a h e a yv l o a d !”
“ S a h m e o n y o u fo r m a ki n g th a t lti tle d o n ke y
P a g e 4 8
V ill a g e w o m e n w a lk d e b y. “ H o w se lf is h ”!
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d n a yk s e h t o t p u d e k o lo e H . g o h e g d e h
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w a r n e d a to a d w h o p a se d b y.
“I s th a t so ?” g la re d th e to a d .
“ B e c a re fu l w h a t yo u w sih fo r, ”
h e a d a ch e ,” co m p la in e d th e h e d g h e o g .
t h e su n w o u l d ta ke a b re a !”k
“I ’ m so ti re d t h a t i ’ts g iv in g m a e
a h e a d a c h e fr o m a ll th is su n . I w is h
a h e d g e h o g o n e d a .y
a n d cr o ss.
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P a g e 5 0
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F lw o e rs ke p t th e ri p e t a ls ti g h tl y s u t.h
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f o r e ilv s ts ie n it e h t t s ju d n a ,k r a d w e r g
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“ Lo o k w h a t y o u v’e d o n e !” cr i e d t h e t o a d .
T h e to a d s n o rt e d . “ IT M E A N S , ro N O e lig h t.
w a s co v e re d in d a rk n e ss .
T h e ksy st a ye d b la ck , a n d th e e a rt h
a l itle d a n c e .
sa g n th e h e d g e h o g , a n d h e d i d
T h e n e xt d a y, th e s u n d i d n o t co m e o u t.
“It m e a n s n o m o re h e a d a ch e !”s
P a g e 5 2
•
e h t s ’t
? r e tt a h a M W •
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r e tt a m f o s d n ki e m so t a h t d e n r a le
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u yo w o N . e r u t a r e p m e t h it w e g n a h c n a c
, d li e h o s t :r e tt a m f o s te a ts e e r h t e th w o n k
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P a g e 5 4
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”! w o n k e w w o N “ . o ir h S d i a s ”, g in rn o m
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3
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•
W h a t is th e m a tt e r w h e n it s’ c o ld ?
“ Y o u so vle d m y b o n sq u u e st i o n s!
“ A h ”! s a id P ro fe s so r B e t yt.
m e ss ! R i g h t th e n , I kn e w !”
ta b le , a n d it m e l te d i n to a w a r yte
I b o u g h t a n cie p o p . I le ft ti o tn h e
sa i d M ic h e le l . “ T h e n a t lu n c h ,
“ W e d i d n t’ u n d e srt a n d a t fi rst ”,
! s e s p s i a h P t h C
•
t n a r u a ts e r n w o si h d e n e p o e g r o e G • 7 5 e g a P
.u n e m e h t n o s p i h c o t a t o p t u p d n a
d e g a ck a p re e w s ip h c o t a t o p , e
s. e t a ts d n la g n E w e N e th n i ld o s ti d m n n I a
d ite n U e h t ss o rc a ld o s e r a y e h t ,y a d o T
. d rl o w e h t r e v o ll a d n a s te a t S
7
1
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a p l a t e o f m y ta st y F r n e c h fr ie s ”.
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ch e f G e o rg e C ru m w a s h a rd a t w o r .k
A t a re st a u ra n t in N e w Y o kr s ta te ,
N e w Y o k.r
t e h re s ta u ra n t w a s in S a r a to g a S r p in g ,s
H e n a m e d t h e m S a ra to g a C h ip s, b e ca u se
a lo v e r to ta tse G e o rg e ’s n e w cr yisp fr i e .s
P a g e 5 8
•
It w a s a s u m m e r n h ig t in 1 8 5 3 .
W o rd s p re a d , a n d p e o p le c a m fre o m
.t ye cth a b st e b is h e d a m e g r o e G
. n w o r b n e d l o g d n kc a i h t e r e w s ie rf e h T
.y p p a h t o n s a w r e m o st u c e h t t u B
r e m o ts u c e th , se ir p r su is h o yr.T g n a
e l o h w e h t te a r e m o st u c e h T ! m e th d e v o l
.r e m tso u c e h t d e n i a l p m o c ” ck, a b se e th e k a T “
”. t a e o kt ic h t o o t re a y e h T “
2
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e b ld u o w r e m o ts cu e h t t h g u o h t e g r o e G
sr e in d r e h t O . e r o m r o f d e sk a d n a l fu te a l p
. o o t , m e h t r o f sk a o ta n g e b
5
3
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cu st o m e r s e n t th e f ire s b a kc.
b e fo re . T h e n h e fr ie d th m .e A g a i n , t h e
H e cu t th e p o t a to e s m u ch th i n n e r th a n
to o cr is p to st cki w tih a fo rk .
co u ld b e . H e fr ie d th e m u n ilt th y e w e re
lsci e d th e p o ta to e s a s th in a s th in
P a g e 6 0
G e o r g e m a d e a n o t h e rb a cth r ig h t a w a .y
a n o t h e r p la t e o f fr ie s. T h is it m e ,h e
•
w h o s’ b o ss ”, sa i d G e o r g e . H e m a d e
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ts o m e h t f o e n o s a w si h t y sa s sti t n cie S
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7
. m r a h h c u m o s
1
6
It is t o o d a rk fo r th e m id d le o f th e d a .y
O lka h o m a . T h e ksy g r w o s ve ry d a rk .
T h e a ir fe e ls w a rm a n d st cik y h e r e in
h va e sn a p p e d i n h a lf .
T re e s a re st ri p p e d o f b a kr. S o m e tr e e s
b e d s. C a sr a n d rta c to sr l ie u p si d e d o w n .
P a g e 6 2
•
It si la te a tfe rn o o n n o M a y 3 , 1 9 9 9 .
l tie re d w it h b ri ck ,s w o o d , t a b le s ,a n d
o tu isd e . A ll a r o u n d u ,s th e g ro u n sid
T h e to r n a d o h a s p a ss e d n o w . W e st e p
.s e y e y m e v lie e b ’t n ca d n a p u k o lo I
•
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a t a h t s w e n e h t r a e h e l p o e p y n a M
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sll if ti e g u h o s d u lo c ck la b ,k ci th a e se I
. d n u ro g e h t r e d n u sr la l e c in e d i h to n ru y e th
,y t h ig m a s e m o c ti m o r F y.k s e l o h w e h t
s d n e m r o st e h t li t n u d n u o r g r e d n u g in y a t S
! o d a rn o t a is tI . d in w f lo e n n u t g in n n i p s
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5
s. e lvi r u o e vs a lli w
3
4
P a g e 6 4
o f w in d . tI sc a tt e rs e v r yte h in g in it s p a th .
u p in th e cl o u d s. It sp sin , a ife cre t u n n e l
to th e g ro u n d . tI is th icke st a t th e to p ,
T h e to rn a d o tsr e tc h se fr o m t h e sk y
tr a ile rs a n d tr u ck s th r o u g h th e a r.i
m a d e o f w o o d . T h e p o w e r fu l w in d th ro w s
b l o w sa p a rt h o m e s m a d e o f b r cik a n d b a rn s
R o a r in g , it irp s ro o fs o ff h o u s e .s T h e rto n a d o
•
T h e to rn a d o d e st r o ys a s ti r a c e s a lo n g .
n n o o o n M a e Mh t •
• 5 6 e g a P
n o o m e th n o d e kl a w zz u B d n a ile N
d e b m il c y e h t n e h T .s r u o h e re h t ts o lm a r o f
ye h t ,y a d tx e n e h T .
d e d a e h d n a
a i b m u e l lo g C a E e
e h t o t in ck a b
h t o t d n re u t e r
s. e ro e h e m o c e b d a h y e h t , h tr a E n .O e m o h
n a ci r e m A n a e d a m d a h y e th , e c a sp n I
7
. e u tr e m o c m a re d
1
6
w e n t to p u t a m a n o n t h e m o o n .
w h a t n o o n e h a d d o n e b e fo re . T h e y
lfe w in to sp a ce . T h e y tse o u t to d o
to st u d y.
th s e e s a m p le s b a ck t o E a rt h fo r s cie n ti tss
a d n s o il fr o m t h e m o o n . T h e y w o u ld b ri n g
P a g e 6 6
•
O n J u ly 1 6 , 1 9 6 9 , t r h e e a st ro n a u st
E
a g h le T e
. T o g e th e r, th e tw o c o ll e c t e r d o ck s
n B u zz A l d ri n ts e p p e d o u t o tfh e
t. a th ts ju id d y e th , 9 6 9 1 , 0 2 yl u J n O
t,r a p e n O .s rt a p o tw d a h p i h s e c a sp ri e h T
o t n i ts u a n o rt s a e h t k to ,
a i b m lu o C
e th
s a w ,
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e h t , rt a rp e h t o e h T . e c a p s
•
• 7 6 e g a P
, n a m r o f p e st ll a m s e n o ’ts a h T “
. id a s e h ,“ d n ki n a m r o f p a e l t n ia g e n o
il e N d r a e h lrd o w e h t r e v o ll a e l p o e P
. n o o m e th n o p te s str if t a h t w sa d n a
n o o m e h t n o d n a l o t e d a m
2
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le g a E
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3
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E a g le
to w a rd t.i
4
n a d st e p p e d o n t h e m o o n .
in to th e
E a g le
. T h e y co ld u se e th e m o o n .
fo th e
E a g le
. H e cl im b e d d o w n itsl a d d e r
N e li A rm st ro n g a n d B u zA ld r in , cl im b e d
r A m tsr o n g . N e li o p e n e d th e d o o r
st a y e d o n th e
C o lu m b i a .T
h e o th e r tw o ,
“ T h e
E a g le
h a s l a n d e d ,” sa i d N e li
P a g e 6 8
•
O n e a st ro n a u t, M cih e a l C o lli n s,
a h d b e e n w a tii n g to h e a r.
T h e n c a m e th e w o r d s th e w o r ld
y l F n r o o t B •
, h s ifn ld u o c e h s re o f e B . ld r o w e h t
• 9 6 e g a P
t s h p g i lfi h s a e n n i a N g . e n b w a o li d e t m n e A , w 7 e 3 n 9 a 1 l p e n ’s u d J n lia n u e I o r m a A
d fin ld u o c e n o N . d e h cr a e s s e n a l p 6 d n a
s’ ia l e m A r e b m e m e r e w y a d o T .r e h
7
l.li ks d n a e g a r u co
1
s a i d A m e ila , “ I k n e w Ih a d to fl .y”
6
t yirn g to m a ke t h a t f ilg h t
I g o t 2 0 0 to 3 0 0 fe e t f fo t h e g ro u n d ”,
i n a p la n e , sh e lo ve d
t o W a sh in g to n , D .C . T e n p io l st h a d d ie d
r co e rd s. T w ic e s h e fl e w fr o m H a w iia
t.i“ B y th e t im e
P a g e 7 0
T h e fi r ts ti m e A m e l ia E a rh a rt r o d e
F o r f vie y e a r ,s A m e la i co n ti n u e d to s e t
•
ce la p k o o t e d ri e n a l p ts ifr t a h T
,r e t a l ys a d xi S . 0 2 9 1 r e b m e c e D in
. n o ss e l g in lyf ts ri f r e h k o o t ia l e m A
. e n la p ir a ts ri f r e h t h g u o b e h s n e h T
a s a w e fl e h S . e n a l p ll a m s a n i n a e c O
ss o cr a w le f e h s ,r e t la rs a e y r u o F .r e g n e ss a p
n a m o w ts r fi e h t e m a c e b a il e m A .f l rse e h y b
•
• 1 7 e g a P
c ti n lta A e th d e ss o cr lia e m A , e n u J t a h T
.y
r a n a C
e n a l p w l lo e ry e h d e m a n e h S
. e n o l a ci t n a lt A e h t s o rc o t
2
5
P a g e 7 2
3
4
a n yo n e e ve r h a d .
A m e il a s a id , “ Y e .s”
S h e fl e w h i g h e r a n d
th e fi r ts w o m a n p ilo
fa st e r th a n
to g e t a icl e n se .
b e th e fi str w o m a n to fl y a cr o ss t h e A tl a n ti c? ”
“ A m e li a ,” h e a s ke d . “ H o w w o u l d y o u ikl e to
w o rl d re co rd s i n fl i g h t. S h e b e ca m e
It w a sfr o m C a p ta i n H . H . R a lie .y
•
A lm o st a t o n ce , A m e lia b ro ke
T h n e , i n 1 9 2 8 , A m e la i re c e vi e d a p h o n e ca ll.
•
• 3 7 e g a P
st c e s in e h t f o e m so st c le l o c g e M
st tis n ie sc s p l e h kr o w r e H . e fli t n a l p d n a
t u o b a e r o m n r a e l d lr o w e h t d n u o r a
7
. fe il st e r fo n i a r
1
6
in t h e tr e e to p .s It si h e rjo b .
T o d a y M e g tis ll sp e n d s lo ts o f t im e
th e b ra n c h e s fo r in se c t sa n d fl o w e s.r
th o r n y vi n e s to cl im b a r o u n d .
ts in g . T h e re a re p o is o n d a rt fr o g s a n d
T e h re a re sn a ke s, b a s,t a n d a n ts
s h e l o v e d to cl im b tr e e s. S h e se a rc h e d
M e g fa ce s d a n g e r i n t h e tr e e t o t p h s a t t, o o .
P a g e 7 4
W h e n M e g Lo w m a n w a s lit t le ,
•
s ie d tu s e h S . sit t n e csi ts e r fo n i a r a si g e M
t u o s d in f e h S . d lr o w e h t r ve o ll a tss e r o f n i a r
s n r a e l e h S . e r e h t e lvi st c se in f o s d n ik t a h w
s se e h S . d n u ro g e h t n o e e s t’ n a c e sh
g n i ivl r e h t o d n a ,s t c e s n i s,t n la p y n a m
re a d lr o w e h t n i e sl e e r e h w o N s. g n i th
. e ilf t n a l tp c e ff a y e th w o h
2
•
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ta h t e ifl s e i d u ts g e M , h ig h p u y a W
5
.y n a m so re e th
P a g e 7 6
•
3
4
h a v e b u itl a w a kl w y a u p th e re .
in t h e t re e s. S h e a d n h e r h e lp e rs
th e g ro u n d . S h e cl im b s u p h i g h
tIk e e p s M e g fr o m fa lil n g if s h e
T h e h a rn e ss h a s ro p e s a n d w ir e
M e g w e a rs a h a rn e ss t o k e e p h e r sa fe .
sli s. p .s
M e g d o e sn ’t j u s tst u d y lif e fr o m
It h a n g s fr o m th e tr e e s o n st e e l iw re .s
M e g s’ w a kl w a y l o o sk lki e a b rid g e .
•
ch a e t o g o t e v a h ’t n d i d k in F ke i M • 7 7 e g a P
o n t p ke y e h T ?k in F ke i M d n a l a S se tfo d o n th g A
r e v e n y e h T . n so s e l a s e t a ri p
.i d e t d a h l a S s e p o r e h t m ro f e e r
7
r. e vi r e th g in d ir
ir d e th e w a t e r. 1
6
l e f th e p i ra te s b e h i n d a n d w e n t h o m e .
w a s th e ro u g h e st , to u g h st e m a n e ve r to
M is iss si p p i a n d O h i o ri v
H e ra n a ri v e rb o a t u p a
rs .e F o lk s sa y h e
d n d o w n t h e
a c ip h m u n k ru n s fr o m a co yo te . T h n e S a l
S h e tie d u p th o se p ri a te s fa tse r th a n
T h e sn h e b u r ts fr e e fr o m th e ro p e s .
O n ce th e re liv e d a m a n n a m e d M ik e F in .k
S a l w a tie d u n ti l th e p ir a t e s fe ll a sle e p .
P a g e 7 8
•
r te h g u a d a d a h k in F e ik M , w o N
h g u o t s a s a w k n i lF a S l. a S d e m a n
sr o t a g ill a e d o r e h S y. d d a d r e h s a
m a e rt s p u d e w ro e h S .f f llo e f r ve e n d n a
.r e h t e g o t d l u o c n e m n e t s a ts a f s a e n lo a
a e id o n d a h s te a ri p se o h T
t. h g u a c d ’y e h t n a m o w a t a h w
.t u o d n if n o so ld u o w y e h T
2
•
. d a m g n i p p o h s a w l a S • 9 7 e g a P
5
3
4
S h e k e p t tw o cu b s w it h e r fo r fu n .
S h e h u n te d , isf h e d , a n d w re st le d b e a rs .
S la b a kc.
t h e m a p ie l o f m o n e .y T h e n t h e y ’d g iv e
P a g e 8 0
•
S a l w a s s p e ci a l o ff th e ri ve r, to o .
c va e . T h e y w a n t e d M ik e F i n k t o
T h e y ti e d S a l u p a n d to o k h e r to
A lo f a su d d e n , p ir a t e s g ra b b e d iv th g e e h e ir r!
O n e d a y, S a l w a s h u n ti n g b o b ca t .s
