Reading Fluency - Focus On Phrasing

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Phrases

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Passages are made up of key ideas, and these key ideas are groups of words called ‘phrases’. Several phrases can make up a sentence.

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How do phrases help us to read?

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When we read, it helps to read phrase by phrase to get the full meaning of the text.

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Double-slash marks signal longer pauses at sentence boundaries (in other words, at the end of a sentence).

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Single slash marks signal the shorter phrase pauses within sentences. This is where you pause in between two phrases.

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Rosie loved watching the night sky. // It shined with so
many stars. //

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Sometimes, / she would climb onto Papa’s shoulders.// She’d feel like a princess, / sitting closer to those stars. //

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One afternoon, / Papa said, / “We’re going to the beach! /
Won’t that be fun? // ”

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Rosie wasn’t sure. // “Will my stars be there, too? // ”
“Maybe,” / Papa said. //

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So they went to the beach. // But it was foggy that night – / no stars in sight. // “Let’s see what happens tomorrow,” / Papa said. //

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“Okay... / ” Rosie frowned. // The next morning, / they went back to the beach and Rosie gathered seashells. //

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Rosie found something strange. // It looked like a big, / orange, / bumpy star. // Had it fallen from the sky? // And why wasn’t it glowing? //

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“It’s not a star. // ” Papa smiled. // “It’s a starfish. // It lives in the ocean. // ”