Standard 3 - FINAL- Reading Passage 2-Grandfather

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Reading Passage – Standard Three

Read the passage at least three times. As you read:

 pay attention to punctuation
 read with expression
 try not to read too fast or too slowly
 try to pronounce the words correctly
 ask for help if you don’t know the word

Practice! Practice! Practice!

If you have difficulty with a word, try these strategies:

Decode It! Read It!

1. Sound. Blend. Read

/b//r//ai//n/ or /br//ai//n/

.. .. .. . .

2. Chunk it (look for parts you know)

savannah sa/van/nah

3. Break it up. Blend and Read
discover - dis/ cov/ er

4. Flip the vowel sound
discover

dĭs/ cōv/ er

dĭs/ cǒv/ er

5. Root Words/Beginnings/Endings
reconnects

re CONNECT s

CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION (2020)

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Standard Three

Whenever I visited my Grandfather, he would let me help him in his garden.
Grandad said I had a green thumb so he made a space in his garden just for me.
He showed me how to use the garden tools and he let me choose seeds to plant.
Having a garden is tedious work. Weeds need to be pulled up, the dirt made
smooth, we also have to keep plants watered and watch out for insects.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are scrumptious so I wanted to plant those. My
Grandad preferred cauliflower so he set those. Together we planted four rows of
squash and two rows of lettuce. He also planted potatoes and dasheen. At first
the plants were so scrawny I could hardly see them, then they sprouted up like
weeds. All the hard work was worth it.

Word count 139 Flesch Kincaid Readability – 4.5

These are the skills that are needed to read the words

Phonics Sight Words Inflectional Syllabication
Endings
I choose scrumptious would choose lettuce When/e/ver scraw/ny
visited seeds preferred me is at visited gar/den hard/ly
my plant cauliflower help work first showed sp/ace sprout/ed
he Having set garden be were tools te/di/ous
let tedious together said dirt see seeds al/so Compound Words
in Weeds rows had smooth could Having wa/tered
his need squash green watered them Weeds in/sects Grandfather
a pulled potatoes thumb watch then pulled to/ma/toes Grandad
green up dasheen made out they plants cu/cum/bers
thumb smooth at just for up watered scr/ump/tious
so also scrawny for are like tomatoes want/ed
made keep see how wanted all cucumbers pre/ferred
space watch sprouted to those was wanted cau/li/flo/wer
showed insects weeds use together worth preferred to/get/her
tools tomatoes worth the we it rows plant/ed
let cucumbers and four potatoes po/ta/toes
hardly dash/een
sprouted

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