There are deserts in many parts of the world. Most deserts are huge, dry places where only a few special plants grow. The weather can change quickly from very hot to very cold.  People who visit deserts or live there have to be very careful to survive.

Focus Skills:
– Practice applying phrasing while reading text separated by commas.
– Consolidate and automize decoding compound words.
– Reflect on the text meaning and imagine living in a desert.

New Fluency Launch 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.