Each page is one text. The first sentence is printed whole; after it, every seventh word is a choice of three words in brackets. Students read silently and circle the word that makes sense. As a timed check, give 3 minutes and count the correct choices. The answer keys follow the five pages.
Model one choice aloud, reading the whole sentence with each word. Used three times a year as a 3-minute timed check, the number correct shows growth in reading for meaning; used untimed, it is a reading-comprehension practice page.
Read the text together. At each choice, ask: which word makes the sentence make sense? Then read the sentence again with that word.
Five short nonfiction texts about sea stars, dolphins, butterflies and moths, honeybees and elephants, with every seventh word a choice of three. Students read each text and circle the one word that makes sense in each choice, a quick check of reading for meaning.
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