I am large. I am small. I am a fast swimmer. I have many teeth. I eat mammals, animals and fish. I live in the oceans. Sometimes I can be dangerous. What am I? A shark! Sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs. That’s a long time. They have a special job in the oceans. Let’s find out what that is and why sharks are becoming endangered.

Focus Skills:

• Read with appropriate phrasing and pace by attending to punctuation.
• 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.