Forces of nature are strong pushes and pulls that have the power to move and change things everywhere. What makes plants grow? What makes night and day? What makes the wind blow? How are mountains and rivers made? Why does the rain fall down? The forces of nature are at work.

Focus Skills:

• Use commas to develop phrasing and fluency.
• Read compound words with accuracy and pace.
• Consolidate and automize decoding skills.
• Reflect on the text meaning.

New Fluency Boost titles are an ideal practice tool to assist in building prosody and comprehension. Highly decodable text promotes a fluent read – boosting student confidence and increasing their ability to read with increased pace, flow, and intonation, while freeing their attention to the meaning within text. Exciting and engaging informational topics reinforce and extend subject area content knowledge.