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Due Tues, January 19
This week’s fluency selection is a fiction selection from the short story “Thank you, M’am” by
Langston Hughes. Work on reading with lots of expression and with a smooth, regular pace.
Please read this out loud at least 5 of the 7 days you will have this, and return it next
Tuesday. Have a parent initial that they have heard you read it out loud each day that you
read. Students will receive up to five points each week for this reading. Thanks!
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She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but a hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about eleven o’clock at night, dark, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with the sudden single tug the boy gave it from behind. But the boy’s weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance. Instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk and his legs flew up. The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-­‐jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirtfront, and shook him until his teeth rattled. MN State Standard: 5.3.0.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.